PHD student, Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. She is a Turkish Fulbright grantee under the supervision of Dr. Melissa Kibbe. Esra is deepening her research into conceptual development, particularly examining how young children understand and manage mutually exclusive possibilities. Her work extends into biological conceptual development, investigating infants’ categorical differentiation of plants from non-living objects, aiming to elucidate early conceptual categorization processes. To learn more about Turan-Küçük’s research and publications, visit her webpage.
In Spring 2024, Esra received a CISS Summer mini-grant to support her project investigating young children’s capacity to reason about mutually exclusive possibilities. By assessing their choices in a controlled setting with reduced physical demands, we aim to explore the developmental onset of possibility reasoning related to uncertain object identities. Learn more in our featured article.