Work by Junko (The principal investigator of the MLT Lab) and her collaborator Prof. Mutsumi just published a chapter in a new book on numeral classifier systems in languages !
New book chapter published!
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Meet the new lab member!
January 21, 2021 – Our new lab robot has just arrived today! Please stay tuned for future studies.
A new paper in children learning from a robot!
This new paper looks at the effects of visual cues presented on the screen and different types of gestures in a language lesson for children led by NAO robot and human tutors 🤖 You can check the full article from here.
Junko Kanero, Ph.D.
Junko is the Principal Investigator of Mind, Language, & Technology Lab and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Sabancı University. Her research examines language as a window into human cognition. She and her lab members explore language development in infancy and childhood, the use of technology in language education, neural processing of language, and how language and non-linguistic cognition interact.
Click here to see her CV online as a Google Doc or download a pdf version here.
Another book chapter published!
October 20, 2020 – Check out the chapter A look into the future: How digital tools may advance language development included in a newly published book about digital media.
New book chapter!
July 1, 2020 – New chapter on language, thought, and culture in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Psychology has been published! Click here to learn more about the chapter.
Presentation at CogSCi 2019
July 25, 2019 – I presented a poster at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) in Montreal, Canada. Click here to see the poster and here to find out more about CogSci.
Kanero, J., Oranç, C., Koşkulu, S., Göksun, T., & Küntay, A. C. (2019, July). When do iconic gestures facilitate word learning? The case of L2 lessons for preschoolers led by a robot or human tutor. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada.
Talk at Sabancı University!
May 7, 2019 – I had an opportunity to present my research about learning language with human and robot tutors in the Subject-Based Discussion series organized by the Academic Support Program at Sabancı. It was great to have discussion with students from different backgrounds 🙂
