Fatih Sivridag

PhD in Behaviour and Cognition, University of Göttingen (2024). Thesis: Children's Language Learning and Processing in Digital Social Interactions. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (e-LADDA ITN).

M.A. in Cognitive Science, Bogazici University (2019). Thesis: Effects of Working Memory and Language Proficiency on Second-Language Predictive Inference Generation.

B.A. in Foreign Language Teaching + Certificate in Linguistics, Bogazici University (2012).

"Children's Language Learning and Processing in Digital Social Interactions"

In my post-doctoral research, I am investigating children’s and adults’ information seeking and processing in different social settings. One line of my studies is trying to observe neural patterns when upcoming information has different levels of predictability. In another line of studies, I am investigating how children’s information seeking is shaped by collaborative and competitive social and reward structures in their interactions with their peers as well as with social robots. I am also conducting studies on children’s and adults’ information seeking behaviour with embodied AI agents.

I am curious about how information is represented and organized in human mind.

Previous employment: English teacher (2012–2020). Teaching: BSc Psychology (Scientific Skills), BSc Biology (Cognitive Psychology Practical) Supervision of Bachelor and Master students from Psychology, Biology, and Linguistics

• Sivridag, F., & Mani, N. (2025). Children's cortical speech tracking in child-adult and child-robot interactions. Developmental Psychology.
• Sivridag, F., Schürholz, J., Hoehl, S., & Mani, N. (2025). Children's cortical speech tracking in face-to-face and online video communication. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 20134.
• Sivridag, F., & Mani, N. (2024). Children's word learning from socially contingent robots under active vs. passive learning conditions. Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 669–677).
• Sivridag, F., de Eccher, M., Kagan, I., & Mani, N. (2025). Information seeking behaviour in collaborative and competitive child-robot interactions. [Preprint]

• Talks: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024); e-LADDA Closing Conference (2023); 1st International Educational Congress, Ankara (2025).
• Posters: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLAP 2023); HRI Summer School (2023); Statistical Learning Conference (2026)
• Summer Schools, Workshops, & Lab Visits: Neural Time Series Analysis, Radboud University (2022); Machine Learning for Time Series Data, Radboud University (2025); EEGlab Workshop, Lublin (2022); HRI Summer School (2023), Research visits to Speech Communication and Technology at KTH (Stockholm, 2022), Department of Language and Literature at NTNU (Trondheim, 2022), Internet Technology and Data Science Lab at University of Ghent (Ghent, 2024)
• Science Communication: Workshop "Digital Media in Preschool Education" (Trondheim, 2022); Night of Science (Göttingen, 2022 & 2025); Zukunftstag (Göttingen, 2025 & 2026).