Ferhat Karaman

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Texas A&M University-Kingsville

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Texas A&M University–Kingsville. My research focuses on language learning and cognition across development, with a particular emphasis on how learners extract patterns and structure from linguistic input. I use behavioral and experimental methods to study language processing in children and adults.

Interests

Language Acquisition
Statistical Learning
Memory

Education

PhD in Experimental Psychology, 2018

University of Tennessee, Knoxville
MA in Experimental Psychology, 2016

University of Tennessee, Knoxville
MA in Experimental Psychology, 2013

Florida Atlantic University

Karaman Lab

The Karaman Language & Cognition Lab (KLab) explores how learners across the lifespan acquire language by detecting regularities in their environment. We study the roles of statistical learning and memory in language development and processing, aiming to clarify the cognitive foundations of how linguistic knowledge is learned and maintained.

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Selected Publications

Lany, J., Karaman, F., & Hay, J. F. (2024). A changing role for transitional probabilities in word learning during the transition to toddlerhood? Developmental Psychology, 60(3), 567–581. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001641

Karaman, F., Lany, J., & Hay, J. F. (2024). Can infants retain statistically segmented words and mappings across a delay? Cognitive Science, 48, e13433. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13433

Karaman, F. (2024). Statistical language learning in children with developmental disorders. Journal of Linguistics Research, 35(2), 309–331. https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.1461707

Özdeş, A., & Karaman, F. (2023). Remembering in the digital world: Autobiographical memory in social media. Current Directions in Psychiatry, 15(2), 275–286.

Karaman, F., & Hay, J. F. (2018). The longevity of statistical learning: When infant memory decays, isolated words come to the rescue. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(2), 221–232. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000448

Coppinger, B., Cannistraci, R. A., Karaman, F., Kyle, S. C., Hobson, E. A., Freeberg, T. M., & Hay, J. F. (2017). Studying audience effects in animals: What we can learn from human language research. Animal Behaviour, 124, 161–165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.020

For a full list of publications, please see my CV .

Teaching

Courses taught at TAMUK:

PSYC 3381: Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
PSYC 3387: Experimental Psychology
PSYC 4312: Physiological Psychology
PSYC 4330: Biological Psychology
PSYC 4328: Psychology of Perception
PSYC 5318: Behavioral Science Research

Contact

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