Principle Investigators
Hüseyin Boyacı, Ph.D.
Website: hboyaci.bilkent.edu.tr
Email: hboyaci[at]bilkent.edu.tr
Katja Doerschner, Ph.D.
Website: http://www.doerschner.de
Email: Katja.Doerschner[at]psychol.uni-giessen.de
Ph.D. Students
Göksu Akşam
Göksu Akşam is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Neuroscience program at Bilkent University. She received her B.Sc. degree in Psychology from Middle East Technical University in 2021. Her current research interests broadly include experience-dependent plasticity in the human brain and the neural mechanisms underlying learning and expectations. When she is away from her desk, she enjoys walking, listening to music, street photography, and tutoring children!
Email: goksu.aksam[at]bilkent.edu.tr, aksamgoksu[at]gmail.com“
Hilal İrem Baştürk
Hilal İrem Baştürk received her B.Sc. degree in Psychology from Özyeğin University in 2021 and is currently a PhD. student in Bilkent’s Neuroscience program. Having mainly worked on spatiotemporal perception and multisensory integration during her undergraduate studies, she aims to branch out towards neurocomputational modelling, especially regarding statistical learning and the impact of expectations on visual processes.
Email: irem.basturk[at]bilkent.edu.tr & hilal.basturk[at]ozu.edu.tr
Dilara Erişen
Dilara Erişen received her B.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Middle East Technical University. She received her MS degree in Neuroscience from Bilkent University. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Neuroscience program at Bilkent University. She is working on a project investigating perceptual learning using functional and anatomical neuroimaging techniques.
Email: dilara.erisen[at]bilkent.edu.tr
Merve Kınıklıoğlu
Merve Kınıklıoğlu is currently a Ph.D. student in Neuroscience Program at Bilkent University. She received her B.S. degree in Psychology from TOBB University of Economics and Technology in 2018. She is also a teaching assistant in the Department of Psychology, Bilkent University. She is working on a project investigating effect of spatial attention on surround suppression using behavioral psychophysics, functional MRI and computational modeling.
Email: mervekiniklioglu[at]gmail.com
Amna Malik
Amna Malik is currently a PhD. student in Neuroscience Program at Bilkent University. She received her BS degree in Biochemistry from PMAS, AAUR Pakistan in 2015. After completing her undergraduate studies, Amna received her MS degree in Biomedical Sciences with distinction from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Pakistan in 2018. Amna’s research interests include brain mapping using computational modeling based on fMRI. She is also working as an Early Stage Researcher on a project under the scope of EU- Innovative Training Network. The focus of the project is investigation of the dynamics of visual perception and its neural underpinnings based on neuroimaging.
Email: amnaahmalik55[at]gmail.com
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Z. Büşra Ayar
Zeynep Büşra Ayar is currently a 3rd-year Psychology student at Bilkent University. She is interested in cognitive neuroscience, especially vision and memory.
Ecenur Bilgiç
Ecenur Bilgiç is currently a third-year Psychology student at Bilkent University. She is interested in cognitive neuroscience, specifically visual perception.
Tuğçe Gürbüz
Busra Tugce Gurbuz received her B.A. degree at Bilkent University Psychology department in 2020. Currently, she is seeking graduate programs in computational neuroscience. She works on a project investigating underlying neural mechanisms of orientation adaptation and perception using psychophysics and artificial neural networks.
Alumni
Buse Merve Urgen (PhD, 2021)
Zahide Pamir (PhD, 2017)
Pinar Demirayak (PhD, 2018)
Aslı Gül Kurt (MS, 2021)
Beyza Akkoyunlu (MS, 2020)
Ilayda Nazli (MA, 2019)
Hossein Mehrzadfar (MS, 2019)
Ecem Altan (MA, 2019)
Cemre Yilmaz (MS, 2019)
Cem Benar (MS, 2019)
Batuhan Erkat (MS, 2019)
Görkem Er (MS, 2018)
Ömer Faruk Gülban (BA)
Ayşe İlkay Işık (BA)
Can Oluk (BA)
Aslı Tekin (RA, 2020-21)
Öykü Okur (RA, 2020-21)
Metehan Akça (RA, 2020-21)
Yağmur Dümen (RA, 2020-21)
Last update: October 2021