{"id":6808,"date":"2025-11-11T18:50:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psy.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=6808"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:29:26","slug":"demet-ozer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/psy.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=6808","title":{"rendered":"Demet Ozer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Demet \u00d6zer<\/strong><br>Assistant <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Professor, Department of Psychology<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Education<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PhD, <\/span>Cognitive Psychology, Ko\u00e7 University, Turkey (2016 \u2013 2021)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Research<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. \u00d6zer\u2019s research mainly focuses on language in its multimodal, situated, and interactive context. She examines how people coordinate speech and speech-accompanying communicative cues (e.g., iconic gestures, social eye-gaze) during communication, thinking and learning, as well as the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying this coordination. Dr. \u00d6zer\u2019s research employs perspectives from the cognitive science and psycholinguistics literatures and investigate multimodal language and cognition across different contexts. In her lab, various methodologies such as linguistic tasks that allow for linguistic and gesture analyses (e.g., linguistic complexity, kinematic analysis of gesture), behavioral paradigms (e.g., online language processing tasks such as semantic mismatch paradigms), eye-tracking, and electrophysiological measures (EEG) are used.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Selected Publications<\/span><\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00d6zer, D.,<\/strong> Soyman, E., Badakul, A.N., Arslan, B., Y\u0131lmaz, F.S., &amp; G\u00f6ksun, T. (in press). Distinct temporal dynamics of speech and gesture processing: Insights from event-related potentials across L1 and L2. <em>Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00d6zer, D.,<\/strong>\u202f\u00d6zy\u00fcrek, A., &amp; G\u00f6ksun, T. (2025). Spatial working memory is critical for gesture processing: Evidence from gestures with varying semantic links to speech. <em>Psychonomic Bulletin &amp; Review<\/em>, 32, 1639-1653. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3758\/s13423-025-02642-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3758\/s13423-025-02642-4<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aslan, Z., <strong>\u00d6zer, D., <\/strong>&amp; G\u00f6ksun, T. (2024). Exploring emotions through co-speech gestures: The caveats and new directions. <em>Emotion Review, <\/em>16(4), 265-275<em>. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/17540739241277820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/17540739241277820<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00d6zer, D., <\/strong>Karad\u00f6ller, D. Z., \u00d6zy\u00fcrek, A., &amp; G\u00f6ksun, T. (2023). Gestures that are cued by demonstratives in speech guide listeners\u2019 visual attention during spatial language comprehension. <em>Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152<\/em>(9), 2623\u20132635. <a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/doi\/10.1037\/xge0001402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1037\/xge0001402<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00d6zer, D.<\/strong> &amp; G\u00f6ksun, T. (2020). Visual-spatial and verbal abilities differentially affect processing of gestural vs. spoken expressions.\u202f<em>Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, <\/em>35(7),\u202f896-914.<em>\u202f<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23273798.2019.1703016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23273798.2019.1703016<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a complete list of publications, please visit my Google Scholar profile:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=-uOhXiUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=-uOhXiUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demet \u00d6zerAssistant Professor, Department of Psychology Education Research Dr. \u00d6zer\u2019s research mainly focuses on language in its multimodal, situated, and interactive context. She examines how people coordinate speech and speech-accompanying communicative cues (e.g., iconic gestures, social eye-gaze) during communication, thinking and learning, as well as the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying this coordination. 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