Welcome to the Multimodal Language Lab (MuLaB) at Bilkent University.

Our lab’s research primarily focuses on language-cognition from a multimodal and situated perspective. We examine how people coordinate speech and speech-accompanying multimodal communicative cues (e.g., iconic hand gestures, social eye-gaze) during communication, thinking and learning processes across different contexts, as well as the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying this coordination. In MuLaB, we employ perspectives from psycholinguistics and cognitive science literatures and use various methodologies, such as linguistic tasks that allow for linguistic and gesture analyses (e.g., linguistic complexity, gesture coding, speech disfluencies), behavioral paradigms (e.g., online language processing tasks), eye-tracking, and electrophysiological measures (e.g., EEG).

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