Publications

  • Altınok, N., Over, H., & Carpenter, M. (2023). Young children use imitation communicatively. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 231, 105654. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105654 Request a copy here
  • Altınok, N., Tatone, D., Király, I., Heintz, C., & Gergely, G. (2022). If you presume relevance, you don’t need a bifocal lens, The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e250-e250. DOI: /10.1017/S0140525X22001352 Request a copy here
  • Altınok, N., Király, I., & Gergely, G. (2022). The propensity to learn shared cultural knowledge from social group members: Selective imitation in 18-month-olds. Journal of Cognition and Development, 23(2), 273-288. DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2021.1966013 Request a copy here
  • Altınok, N., Hernik, M., Király, I., & Gergely, G. (2020). Acquiring sub-efficient and efficient variants of novel means by integrating information from multiple social models in preschoolers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 195, 195, 104847. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104847 Request a copy here
  • Sánchez-Amaro, A., Altınok, N., Heintz, C. & Call, J. (2019). Disentangling great apes’ decoy-effect bias in a food choice task. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 6(3), 213-222. DOI: 10.26451/abc.06.03.05.2019 Request a copy here
  • Ger, E., Altınok, N., Liszkowski, U., & Küntay, A. C. (2018). Development of infant pointing from 10 to 12 months: The role of relevant caregiver responsiveness. Infancy, 23(5), 708-729. DOI: 10.1111/infa.12239  Request a copy here

Selected Presentations

  • Altınok, N., Hernik, M., Király, I., & Gergely, G. (February, 2021). Expectation of efficiency is modulated by group membership information in 11-month-olds. Poster presented at Origins of the Social Mind Preconference at SPSP 2021, Virtual Annual Conference.
  • Altınok, N., Király, I., & Gergely, G. (March, 2019). Eighteen month olds’ selective imitation of linguistic ingroups: Efficiency does not always triumph. Poster presented at SRCD Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, USA.
  • Altınok, N., Hernik, M., Király, I., & Gergely, G. (January, 2018). Shared language in modulating epistemic trust in 4-year-old children: An over-imitation study. Paper presented at Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD), Budapest, Hungary.
  • Altınok, N., Hernik, M., Király, I., & Gergely, G. (April, 2017). Over-imitation as a byproduct of children’s readiness to learn culturally relevant information. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development, SRCD, Austin, Texas, USA.

Selected Fellowships and awards

  • CEU Doctoral Research Grant (2019)
  • APA Travel Award (2017)    
  • Jacobs Foundation Travel Award (2016)
  • The Fulbright Fellowship (2013)
  • CEU PhD Fellowship (2013-2016)