Research Experience


Research Intern

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Psychology of Language Department

2024 February – 2024 July

As a volunteer intern, my tasks include reviewing literature, setting up and running psycholinguistic experiments in OpenSesame and R Studio, programming and data analysis in R and JASP.


Undergraduate Research Intern

METU Multimodal Language and Cognitive Development Lab
Department of Psychology / Asst. Prof. Dilay Z. Karadöller

2023 May – 2024 February

As a volunteer intern, I have been assigned to help one of the researchers at the laboratory with her Multimodal Language Input research, and my tasks include transcribing and coding the data collected by the researcher.


Undergraduate Research Intern

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab
Department of Foreign Language Education / Assoc. Prof. Duygu Özge

2023 May – 2024 January
2022 May – 2022 November


As a volunteer intern, my tasks include helping the researchers with their research on Metaphor Processing in children by doing literature review, experiments on the participants, data transcription, and data coding.


Undergraduate Researcher/Co-Author

The Effect of Word Exposure Frequency on Vocabulary Acquisition Through Extensive Reading (Co-Author)

Awarded with the AdımODTU Undergraduate Research Support, two other undergraduate students and I have been carrying out a study on The Effect of Word Exposure Frequency on Vocabulary Acquisition Through Extensive Reading.

This study is the extended version of a previous paper by the same three authors, which was the final project for the Advanced Reading and Writing Skills class that I took during the course of my bachelor’s degree at the Middle East Technical University.

Supervisor: Dr. Xiaoli Yu