Publications & Presentations

PUBLICATIONS

* denotes student/mentee

       Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Yıldız, E.*, Keşşafoğlu, D.*, Altundal, M.*, Akel, G.*, & Uzundağ, B. A. (in press). Navigating the Digital Age: Exploring the Link Between Children's Self-Regulatory Skills and Technology-Based Interruptions in Parent-Child Interactions. Family Relations.

Koç, N.*, Tahiroğlu, D., & Uzundağ, B. A. (2024). From Mind to Mind: Understanding the Role of Mothers in Children’s Theory of Mind. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0193397324000881

Keşşafoğlu, D.*, Küntay, A. C., Uzundağ, B. A. (2024). Immediate and Delayed Effects of Fantastical Content on Children's Executive Functions and Mental Transformation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022096524002078

Uzundağ, B. A., Koşkulu-Sancar, S., Küntay, A. C. (2024). Background TV and Infant-Family Interactions: Insights from Home Observations. Infancy. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/infa.12598

Yıldız, E. & Uzundağ, B. A. (2024). The Role of Perceived Social Support in Mitigating the Impact of Parenting Stress on Children’s Effortful Control. International Journal of Behavioral Development. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01650254241239975

Uzundağ, B. A., Altundal, M. N.*, & Keşşafoğlu, D.* (2022). Screen Media Exposure in Early Childhood and its Relation to Children’s Self-Regulation: A Systematic Review. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/hbet/2022/4490166/

Yıldız, E.* & Uzundağ, B. A. (2022). Mothers’ descriptions of referents are related to children's communicative competence. Cognitive Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101258

Uzundağ, B. A., Oranç, C., Keşşafoğlu, D.*, & Altundal, M. N.* (2022). Relations Among Self-Reported Maternal Stress, Smartphone Use, and Mother-Child Interactions. Journal of Child and Family Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02371-5

Nakipoğlu, M., Uzundağ, B. A., & Ketrez, F. N. (2022). Analogy is indispensable but rule is a must: Insights from Turkish. Journal of Child Language. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000921

Uzundağ, B. A. (2022). Arka Plan Televizyonun Erken Çocukluktaki Gelişim ve Çocuk-Ebeveyn Etkileşimleri ile İlişkisi: Bir Derleme Çalışması. [The Relationship Between Background TV, Child Development and Child-Caregiver Interactions in Early Childhood: A Review Study]. Nesne Psikoloji Dergisi.

Nakipoğlu, M., Uzundag, B. A., Sarıgül, Ö. (2021). Young minds’ quest for regularity: Evidence from the Turkish causative. Journal of Child Language. doi:10.1017/S0305000921000672

Koşkulu, S.*, Küntay, A. C., Liszkowski, U., & Uzundag, B. A. (2021). Number and Type of Toys Affect Joint Attention of Mothers and Infants. Infant Behavior and Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101589

Koşkulu, S.*, Küntay, A. C., & Uzundag, B. A. (2021). Maternal Behaviors Mediate the Relationship between Maternal Education and Joint Attention. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2021.101291

Gutchess, A., Ksander, J., Millar, P. R., Uzundag, B. A., Sekuler, R., & Boduroglu, A. (2020). Cultural differences in performance on Eriksen’s Flanker Task. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02117-9

Uzundağ, B. A. & Küntay, A. C. (2019). The acquisition and use of relative clauses in Turkish-learning children’s conversational interactions: A crosslinguistic approach. Journal of Child Language. https://doi.org/10.1017/S030500091900045X

Uzundag, B. A. & Küntay, A. C. (2018). Children's referential communication skills: The role of cognitive abilities and adult models of speech. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.02.009

Uzundağ, B. A., Taşçı, S. S., Küntay, A. C., & Aksu-Koç, A. (2018). Functions of Turkish evidentials in early child-caregiver interactions: A growth curve analysis of longitudinal data. Journal of Child Language. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000917000526

Book Chapters

Uzundağ, B. A., Keşşafoğlu, D.*, Altundal, M. N.*, & Erdoğan, Ş. N.* (2023). Dijital Dünyada Ebeveyn-Çocuk Etkileşimi ve Çocukların Bilişsel Gelişimi [Parent-Child Interaction and Children’s Cognitive Development in a Digital World]. In M. Ekerim (Ed.), Sosyal Zihin: Bilişsel Gelişimde Sosyal Etkileşimin Rolü. Vakıfbank Kültür Yayınları. https://www.vbky.com.tr/kitap/sosyal-zihin

Uzundağ, B. A., Keşşafoğlu, D.*, & Altundal, M. N.* (2023). Dijital Dünyada Erken Çocukluk: Ekran Kullanımı ve Öz Düzenleme Becerileri Arasındaki İlişki [Early Childhood in a Digital World: The Relationship Between Screen Media use and Self-Regulation]. In F. Karaman and A. Özdeş (Eds.), Değişen Dünyanın Gelişen Çocukları: Dijital Teknolojinin Çocuk Gelişimi Üzerindeki Etkileri. Nobel Akademi Yayıncılık.

Uzundağ, B. A., Oranc, C., Keşşafoğlu, D.*, & Altundal, M. N.* (2022). How Children in Turkey Use Digital Media: Factors Related to Children, Parents, and Their Home Environment. In H. Şen and H. Selin (Eds.), Childhood in Turkey: Educational, Sociological, and Psychological Perspectives. Springer.

Özkan, D., Uzundag, B. A., & Küntay A. C. (2019). Learning language is learning typology: Acquisition of argument structure and relative clauses in typologically diverse languages. In J. von Koss Torkildsen and J. Horst (Eds.), International Handbook of Language Acquisition. London: Routledge.

Uzundag, B. A., Tasci, S. S., & Küntay, A. C. (2017). Nonfactual meanings in early use of evidentials in Turkish child-caregiver interactions. In F. N. Ketrez, A. Küntay, A. Özyürek, & Ş. Özçalışkan (Eds.), Social environment and cognition in language development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç. Trends in Language Acquisition Research Series. John Benjamins Publications.

Uzundağ, B. A. & Küntay, A. C. (2016). İkidillilik gelişen zihni farklı şekillendirir mi? [Does bilingualism shape the developing mind differently?] In Ç. Aydın, T. Göksun, A. Küntay, & D. Tahiroğlu (Eds.), Aklın Çocuk Hali - Zihin Gelişimi Araştırmaları (pp. 41-67). İstanbul: Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları.

Conference Proceedings

Uzundag, B. A., Tasci, S. S., Küntay, A. C., & Aksu-Koç, A. (2016). Functions of evidentials in Turkish child and child-directed speech in early child-caregiver interactions. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Calikli, G., Bener, A., Arslan, B. (2010). An analysis of the effects of company culture, education and experience on confirmation bias levels of software developers and testers. Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering. Cape Town, vol. 2, pp.187-190. 

Calikli, G., Arslan, B., Bener, A. (2010). Confirmation Bias in Software Development and Testing: An Analysis of the Effects of Company Size, Experience and Reasoning Skills. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Psychology of Programming Interest Group, Madrid.

PRESENTATIONS

• Özalp, D.*, Sönmez, A. K.*, & Uzundağ, B. A. (2025, January). Socioeconomic status and maternal behaviors encouraging infant exploration. Poster session presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

• Özalp, D.* & Uzundağ, B. A. (2025, January). The effect of maternal attention-following on the relationship between SES and infant exploration. Poster session presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

• Keşşafoğlu, D.*, Yıldız, E.*, Küntay, A. C., & Uzundağ, B. A. (2024, July). Background Television and Infant-Directed Speech: A Home Observation Study. International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Prague, Czechia.

• Uzundağ, B. A., Güven, İ. N.*, Sıvış, Ö.*, & Başpınar, G.* (2024, July). From crib to screen: Understanding the links between screen time and infant attention. Talk presented at the XXIV International Congress of Infant Studies, Glasgow, UK.

• Koç, N.* & Uzundağ, B. A. (2024, January). Conversing with the mind: The relationship between parental reflective functioning and parents’ mental state talk with children. Poster session presented at the 14th Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

• Koç, N.* & Uzundağ, B. A. (2024, January). A deeper look into the mind: The relationship between parental reflective functioning and the duration of joint attention between infants and mothers. Poster session presented at the 14th Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

• Uzundağ, B. A. & Koç, N.* (2023, August). Attention Sharing Helps Attention Focusing: Relations Between Infants' Focused Attention and Joint Attention with Caregivers. Talk presented at the 8th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development, Lancaster, UK. 

• Koç, N. & Uzundağ, B. A. (2023, August). “Perhaps the frog has gone to the lake”: Mothers’ mental state talk about certainty mediates the relationship between mothers’ and children’s theory of mind. Poster session presented at the 8th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development, Lancaster, UK. 

• Akel-Güçlü, G.* & Uzundağ, B. A. (2023, August). Mothers’ Pre-mentalization Mediates the Relationship Between Parenting Stress and Children’s Emotion Regulation Difficulties. Poster session presented at the 8th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development, Lancaster, UK. 

• Akel-Güçlü, G.*, Sıvış, Ö.*, & Uzundağ, B. A. (2023, August). Mothers’ supportive and non-supportive responses to children’s negative emotions and children’s emotion regulation skills. Poster session presented at the 8th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development, Lancaster, UK. 

• Keşşafoğlu, D.*, Küntay, A., & Uzundağ, B. A. (2023, August). Can A Crab Walk in The Air or Walk Through Walls? Impact of Watching Fantastical Content on Young Children's Cognitive Skills. Poster session presented at the 8th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development, Lancaster, UK. 

• Yıldız, E.* & Uzundağ, B. A. (2023, January). Higher-quality maternal feedback is linked to children’s communicative success. Poster session presented at the 13th Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

• Yıldız, E.*, Keşşafoğlu, D.*, Altundal, M. N.*, Akel, G.*, & Uzundağ, B. A. (2023, January). Parenting stress mediates the relationship between child effortful control and technoference. Poster session presented at the13th Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

• Koç, N.* & Uzundağ, B. A. (2023, January). From mind to mind: The relation between mothers’ and children’s theory of mind. Poster session presented at the 13th Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

• Keşşafoğlu, D.*, Uzundağ, B. A., Yıldız, E.*, & Küntay, A. C. (2023, January). Background television and child-directed language input: a home observation study. Poster session presented at the 13th Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

• Koç, N.* & Uzundağ, B. A. (2022, September). Are mothers' and children's theory of mind skills related? Poster session presented at the 3rd Developmental Psychology Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Kessafoglu, D.*, Altundal, M. N.*, Koc, N.*, Yildiz, E.*, Uzundag, B. A. (2022, August). Correlates of young children's screen time. Poster session presented at the 7th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development. 

• Yildiz, E.*, Keşşafoğlu, D.*, Altundal, M.*, Akel, G.*, & Uzundag, B. A. (2022, August). Parents’ Perceived Social Support Moderates the Relation between Parenting Stress and Children’s Effortful Control. Poster session presented at the 7th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Childhood Development.

• Yildiz, E.*, Koşkulu, S., Ertaş, S., Küntay., A. & Uzundag, B. A. (2022, August). Joint Attention as a Precursor to Children’s Referential Communication Skills. Poster session presented at the 7th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Childhood Development.

• Yildiz, E.*, Uzundag, B. A. (2022, January). Mothers’ Descriptions of Referents Predict Children’s Communicative Success. Poster session presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.

• Yildiz, E.*, Uzundag, B. A., Küntay, A. (2022, January). Joint Attention in Infancy Predicts Referential Communication Skills in Toddlerhood. Poster session presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.

• Yildiz, E.*, Uzundag, B. A. (2022, January). Children's Repair of Communication Breakdowns: The Role of Maternal Feedback Strategies. Poster session presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.

• Uzundag, B. A., Altundal, M. N.*, & Keşşafoğlu, D.* (2022, January). Screen Media Exposure in Early Childhood and its Relation to Children’s Self-Regulation: A Systematic Review. Poster session presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.

• Yildiz, E.*, Uzundag, B. A. (2021, November). Mothers’ Descriptions of Referents are Linked to Children’s Communicative Competence. Poster session presented at the 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development.

• Uzundag, B. A., Altundal, M. N.*, & Keşşafoğlu, D.* (2021, November). Screen Media Exposure in Early Childhood and its Relation to Children’s Self-Regulation: A Systematic Review. Poster session presented at the virtual APA Technology, Mind, and Society Conference.

• Uzundag, B. A., Yildiz, E.*, Altundal, M. N.*, Kessafoglu, D.* (2021, April). Screen Use at Home is Associated with Shorter Interactions with Objects in Infant-Caregiver Pairs. Poster session presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.

• Uzundag, B. A., Oranc, C., Kessafoglu, D.*, Altundal, M. N.* (2021, April). Higher Parental Stress Leads to Interruptions in Parent-Child Interactions due to Parents’ Own Technology Use. Poster session presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.

• Uzundag, B. A., Yildiz, E.*, Altundal, M. N.*, Kessafoglu, D.* (2021, January). Screen Use at Home is Associated with Shorter Triadic Interactions in Infant-Caregiver Pairs. Poster session presented at the virtual Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.

• Koşkulu, S.*, Küntay, A. C., Uzundag, B. A. (2020, July). Number of toys affect features of joint attentional interactions in mother-infant dyads. Poster session presented at the virtual International Congress of Infant Studies.

• Koşkulu, S.*, Küntay, A. C., Uzundag, B. A. (postponed to 2021, July). Maternal Behaviors and Joint Attention Mediate the Link between Maternal Education and Language Development. Poster session presented at the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Philadelphia, USA.

• Koşkulu, S.*, Küntay, A. C., Uzundag, B. A. (2020, January). Maternal Behaviors and Joint Attention Mediate the Link between Maternal Education and Language Development. Poster session presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

• Koşkulu, S.*, Uzundag, B. A., Özdemirhan, B., Türkmen, I., & Küntay, A. C. (2019, September). Anne Davranışlarının Anne-Bebek Ortak Dikkat Süreçleri ve Dil Gelişimi Üzerindeki Rolü [The Role of Maternal Behaviors in Mother-Infant Joint Attention Processess and Infants’ Language Development]. Poster sessions presented at the 5th Experimental-Cognitive Psychology Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey and 2nd Developmental Psychology Symposium, Izmir, Turkey.

• Uzundag, B. A., Koşkulu, S.*, & Küntay, A. C. (2019, March). Attentional Orienting in Infancy is Associated with Temperament and Cognitive Development. Poster session presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, USA.

• Uzundag, B. A., Koşkulu, S.*, & Küntay, A. C. (2019, January). The Development of Attentional Orienting and its Relation to Cognitive Development. Poster session presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

• Uzundag, B. A., Koşkulu, S.*, & Küntay, A. C. (2018, November). Bebeklikte dikkati yönlendirme davranışının mizaç ve bilişsel gelişim ile ilgisi. 20. Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi, Ankara, Türkiye.

• Aktan-Erciyes, A., Uzundag, B. A., & Göksun, T. (2018, July). On the way to talk about motion events: A longitudinal study. Poster session presented at the 21st International Congress of Infant Studies, Philadelphia, USA.

• Uzundag, B. A., & Küntay, A. C. (2018, May). Preschoolers' Referential Communication Skills: Learning from Adults and the Impact of Executive Functions. Poster session presented at the 30th Association for Psychological Science Convention, San Francisco, USA.

• Uzundag, B. A., & Küntay, A. C. (2018, February). The acquisition and use of relative clauses in Turkish: An analysis of spontaneous interactions. Talk presented at the 1st Boğaziçi University Student Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Uzundag, B. A. & Küntay, A. C. (2018, January). Children's referential communication skills: The role of cognitive abilities and adult models of speech. Poster session presented at the 8th Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

• Uzundag, B. A. & Küntay, A. C. (2017, August). Hearing object relative clauses improves children's ability to describe referents uniquely. Poster session presented at the European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Utrecht, NL.

• Goksun, T., George, N., Kartalkanat, H., Uzundag, B., & Turan, E. (2016). Expressions of complex causal relations in speech and gesture. Poster session presented at the 41st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.

• Uzundag, B. A., Taşçı, S. S., Küntay, A. C., & Aksu-Koç, A. (2015, June). Differentiation of evidential functions in Turkish child and child-directed speech. Talk presented at LingDay, Boğaziçi University.

• Uzundag, B. A., Taşçı, S. S., Küntay, A. C., & Aksu-Koç, A. (2015, March). Differentiation of evidential functions in Turkish child and child-directed speech. Poster session presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, USA. 

• Ozge, D., Uzundag, B., Ozkan, D., Küntay, A., & Snedeker, J. (2014, November). Children do use verbal morphemes for thematic role assignment. Poster session presented at the International Workshop on Children's Acquisition and Processing of Head-Final Languages, Cambridge, USA.

• Ozge, D., Ozkan Gokturk, D., Uzundag, B., Küntay, A., & Snedeker, J. (2014, September). Verbal morphemes do guide thematic role assignment in children. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

• Uzundag, B., Boduroglu, A., Tekin, E. E., & Küntay, A. C. (2014, April). The role of event segmentation in narrative recall. Poster session presented at the 1st International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science, Istanbul, Turkey. 

• Ozge, D., Snedeker, J., Ozkan-Gokturk, D., Uzundag, B., & Küntay, A. (2014, March). Turkish-speaking children use verbal morphemes to predict argument structure. Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbus, Ohio. 

• Millar, P., Arslan, B., Gutchess, A., Boduroglu, A., & Sekuler, R. (2013, November). Cultural differences in flanker task interference. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Ontario, Canada. 

• Arslan, B. & Boduroglu, A. (2013). Effects of cultural self-construal priming on event segmentation of autobiographical narratives. Poster session presented at the Social Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory Conference, Aarhus, Denmark.