Alper Kumcu

Dr Alper Kumcu is an associate professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting at Hacettepe University. He completed an MA in the same department, researching eye movements during simultaneous interpreting with text. After receiving his MSc with distinction from the University of Birmingham's School of Psychology, he completed his PhD in the same department under the supervision of Dr Robin L. Thompson. His PhD thesis (Looking for Language in Space: Spatial Simulations in Memory for Language) investigated the role of space and spatial perception in verbal memory. Dr Kumcu is currently co-editor of Translation, Cognition & Behavior, published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Previously, he was an associate editor of the Hacettepe University Journal of the Faculty of Letters. He acts as a referee for several international journals, including Cognition, Psychological Research, Memory, the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and the Interpreter and Translator Trainer, as well as for grants from the the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK). In 2020, he received the Science Incentive Award in the Social Sciences from Hacettepe University. His main areas of research are language memory and embodied cognition within psycholinguistics, as well as data-driven cognitive translation studies. He has extensive experience in designing behavioural and eye-tracking experiments, programming in Python, conducting statistical analyses using R, performing mixed-effects modelling, and creating data visualisations using ggplot2. Please visit https://alperkumcu.github.io for more information.