Publications

Journal Articles
Özer, D., Soyman, E., Badakul, A.N., Arslan, B., Yılmaz, F.S., & Göksun, T. (accepted). Distinct temporal dynamics of speech and gesture processing: Insights from event-related potentials across L1 and L2. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Constant, M.,.. , Özer, D., .., & Liesefeld, H.R. (2025) A multilab investigation into the N2pc as an indicator of attentional selectivity: Direct replication of Eimer (1996). Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.05.014
Ceylan, S., Özer, D., & Göksun, D. (2025). Expression of emotions: The dynamics of gesture characteristics in diverse emotion categories. Cognition and Emotion, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2516659
Özer, D., Özyürek, A., & Göksun, T. (2025). Spatial working memory is critical for gesture processing: Evidence from gestures with varying semantic links to speech. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02642-4
Doğan, I., Özer, D., Aktan-Erciyes, A., Furman, R., Demir-Lira, Ö.E., Özçalışkan, S., & Göksun, T. (2024). The link between early iconic gesture comprehension and receptive language. Infant and Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2552
Arslan, B., Avcı, C., & Özer, D. (2024). Multimodal communication in virtual and face-to-face settings: Gesture production and speech disfluency. Studies in Psychology, 44(3), 349–363. https://doi.org/10.26650/SP2024-1443983
Aslan, Z., Özer, D., & Göksun, T. (2024). Exploring emotions through co-speech gestures: The caveats and new directions. Emotion Review; 16(4), 265-275. https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739241277820
Özer, D., Karadöller, D. Z., Özyürek, A., & Göksun, T. (2023). Gestures that are cued by demonstratives in speech guide listeners’ visual attention during spatial language comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(9), 2623–2635. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001402.
Kandemir, S., Özer, D., & Aktan-Erciyes, A. (2023). Multimodal language in child-directed versus adult-directed speech. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218231188832. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231188832.
Arslan, B., Özer, D., & Göksun, T. (2023). Grammatical complexity and gesture production of younger and older adults. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 34(2), 201-216. https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.1336844.
Emir Özder, L., Özer, D., & Göksun, T. (2022). Gesture use in L1-Turkish and L2-English: Evidence from emotional narrative retellings. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218221126685. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221126685.
Özer, D. & Göksun, T. (2020). Gesture use and processing: a review on individual differences in cognitive resources. Frontiers in Psychology, 11: 573555. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.573555.
Özer, D. & Göksun, T. (2020). Visual-spatial and verbal abilities differentially affect processing of gestural vs. spoken expressions. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35(7), 896-914.https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1703016.
Özer, D., Göksun, T., & Chatterjee, A. (2019). Differential roles of gestures on spatial language in neurotypical elderly adults and individuals with focal brain injury. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 36:5-6, 282-299.https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2019.1618255.
Conference Proceedings
Özer, D. & Göksun, T. (2025) Speaker-related cognitive constraints on multimodal audience design during spatial communication. In A. Ruggeri, D. Barner, C. Walker, & N. Bramley (Eds.) Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. ). San Fransisco, CA: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13g0n75p
Baykal, G.E., Leylekoğlu, A., Arslan, S., & Özer, D. (2023). Studying Chilldren’s Object Interaction in Virtual Reality: A Manipulative Gesture Taxonomy for VR Hand Tracking. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585865
Özer, D., Karadöller, D.Z., Türkmen, İ., Özyürek, A., & Göksun, T. (2020, September). Informativeness of gestures in speech context guides visual attention during comprehension of spatial language.7^th Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN) Conference.
Özer, D., Tansan, M., Özer, E. E., Malykhina, K., Chatterjee, A., & Göksun, T. (2017). The effects of gesture restriction on spatial language in young and elderly adults. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1471-1476). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bj5z327
Özer, D., Kranjec, A., Balcı, F., & Göksun, T. (2017). The effects of duration words and spatial-temporal metaphors on perceived duration In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1477-1482). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kj160r0