Isil Necef
Isil’s post-doctoral research project at the Baby Dev Lab, involves the interactional dynamics and speech development during infancy. She is examining how parental contingency toward speech-like vocalisations changes as a function of parental anxiety and autonomic arousal. Her project is funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.
Before joining the Baby Dev Lab, Isil completed her Ph.D. degree in psychology at Middle East Technical University in Turkey. In her Ph.D. dissertation, she studied mothers’ sense of motherhood and the behavioural synchrony between mothers and their 10-month-old infants. During her Ph.D., she also worked as a clinical psychologist at Koc University Hospital in Istanbul with children, adolescents, and adults. Prior to her Ph.D. in psychology, she was an adjunct professor at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). She gained her Master of Science degree in psychology from CSUF. As part of the program, she worked at a mental health clinic as a trainee psychologist specializing in parent-child/infant interaction therapy. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Isil has a clinical and theoretical background in Lacanian psychoanalysis, which is her source of inspiration for developing scientific hypotheses in developmental psychology research. Her research interests include the formation of the speaking subject and the role of language development in self-regulation as well as in co-regulation.
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