Publications
A complete list of journal articles, edited books, book chapters, conference proceedings, and translations. Open materials, datasets, preprints, PDFs, and other resources are linked where available.
Papers
Web of Science
Disentangling cognitive and emotional load in interpreting: multimodal evidence from physiological and prosodic data
Kumcu, A., & Duman, D. (2026). Target, xx(x), xxx–xxx.
Spoken language biomarkers in Turkish-speaking schizophrenia patients: Evidence from linguistic analysis and word embeddings
Çınar Bozdağ, M., Kumcu, A., Şenel, L. K., Temizkan, H. N., Özil, Ö., Arslanyürek, İ., Ertekin, P. N., & Candansayar, S. (2026). Psychiatry Research, 362(x), xxx–xxx.
Testing the impact of translation training on creativity: Evidence from Turkish-English student-translators
Yılmaz, B. A., Kumcu, A. & Antonova-Ünlü, E. (2026). Moderna Språk. 120(1), 102–115.
Visual mental imagery and verbal working memory: evidence from consecutive interpreting
Kumcu, A., & Öztürk, A. (2023). Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 35(5), 545–560.
Remembering spatial words: Sensorimotor simulation affects verbal recognition memory
Kumcu, A., & Thompson, R. L. (2022). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(9), 1694–1710.
Assessing the use of multiple-choice translation items in English proficiency tests: The case of the National English Proficiency Test in Turkey
Dinçer, H., Antonova-Ünlü, E., & Kumcu, A. (2022). Applied Linguistics Review, 13(4), 461–475.
Linguistic synesthesia in Turkish: A corpus-based study of cross-modal directionality
Kumcu, A. (2021). Metaphor and Symbol, 36(4), 241–255.
Less imageable words lead to more looks to blank locations during memory retrieval
Kumcu, A., & Thompson, R. L. (2020). Psychological Research, 84, 667–684.
Scopus
Looking at Online Language Comprehension with the Visual World Paradigm: A Systematic Review of Three Decades
Uzun, İ. P., & Kumcu, A. (2025). Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 36(2), 185–223.
TRIndex
Effort in machine translation post-editing: the role of expertise
Öztürk, M. S., & Kumcu, A. (2025). Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 19(2), 293–309.
Emotional language processing in bilingualism: Subjective affect and prosodic markers in simultaneous interpreting
Kumcu, A. (2023). Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 17(2), 194–211.
Konferans salonunda dağıtık biliş: Andaş çeviri sürecine yeni bir bakış
Kumcu, A. (2020). Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 37(1), 170–185.
English title: Distributed cognition in the conference venue: A fresh perspective on the simultaneous interpreting process.
Alice çeviri diyarında: Kültürel motifler açısından karşılaştırmalı bir çeviri eleştirisi
Kumcu, A. (2008). Çeviribilim ve Uygulamaları, 18, 123–144.
English title: Alice in translationland: A comparative translation analysis with regard to cultural motifs.
Other indices
The Effect of Syntactic Structure and Distance on Sentence Processing: Evidence from Visual-World Paradigm
Çakar, S., Kumcu, A., & Uzun, İ. P. (2025). Mersin Üniversitesi Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi, 21(2), 49–75.
The attitude and expectations of Turkish society concerning immigrants residing in Turkey and their social and linguistic acculturation patterns
Sağın-Şimşek, Ç., Antonova-Ünlü, E., & Kumcu, A. (2020). Journal of Second and Multiple Language Acquisition, 8(3), 57–78.
Books
Editorship
Synergy II: Linguistics: Contemporary studies on Turkish linguistics
Söylemez, A. S., & Kumcu, A. (Eds.). (2021). Synergy II: Linguistics: Contemporary studies on Turkish linguistics. Peter Lang.
Engelsiz erişim ve iletişim
Cihan, A., Gökduman, U., & Kumcu, A. (Eds.). (2021). Engelsiz erişim ve iletişim. İletişim Başkanlığı Yayınları.
English title: Accessibility and Communication.
Book chapters
Ne Soyut Temsiller Ne Temsilsiz Zihin: Üçüncü Alternatif Temsilsel Bedenlenme
Kumcu, A. (2026). In xxx (Eds.), Bilişsel Bilim Felsefesi (pp. xxx–xxx). Doruk Yayınları.
It's High Time: A Corpus and NLP-Based Investigation of the Time Metaphors in Turkish
Kumcu, A. (2025). In H. Cangır, K. Uzun, T. Can, & E. Oğuz (Eds.), Exploration of the Intersection of Corpus Linguistics and Language Science (pp. 223–252). IGI Global Scientific Publishing.
Space-time mapping in Turkish: A corpus-based, crosslinguistic investigation
Kumcu, A. (2022). In B. Süverdem & S. Tekalp (Eds.), Linguistics: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (pp. 29–49). Peter Lang.
Spatial interference and individual differences in looking at nothing for verbal memory
Kumcu, A., & Thompson, R. L. (2016). In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2387–2392). Cognitive Science Society.
A transnational and translational hi(story): role of translation and interpreting in the course of Turkish Republic accession to the European Union
Kumcu, A. (2013). In R. Kumar (Ed.), Role of Translation in Nation Building (pp. 73–85). Modlingua. ISBN: 978-81-926798-0-8.
Translation
Yeni hümanistler: İnsandan evrene son bilimsel tartışmalar
Brockman, J. (Ed.). (2014). Yeni hümanistler: İnsandan evrene son bilimsel tartışmalar. N. Büyükkantarcıoğlu & A. Kumcu, Trans. TÜBİTAK Popüler Bilim Yayınları. Original work published 2003.
Original title: The New Humanists: Science at the Edge.