Tan Gedik

Welcome to my webpage.

I am a cognitive scientist, working at the intersections of literacy, language, and cognition, broadly speaking. In 2025, I finished my PhD under the supervision of Ewa Dabrowska at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg on how literacy skills change our first language grammatical knowledge. I an associated researcher at the RTG Dimensions of Constructional Space funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. I am an instructor at the Department of Psychology at Bilkent University, where I teach several classes. 

Broadly speaking, I investigate how learning to read and write changes 1) the grammatical knowledge of our native languages, and 2) how literacy influences cognitive constructs (i.e., false-belief, semantic fluency, false memory among others), narrative skills, and communicative efficiency.