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
Graduate Students
Süheyla Aydemir
Süheyla Aydemir received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Bogazici University in 2025. She is currently a Master’s student in Bilkent’s Neuroscience program. Her previous research focused on visual ambiguities and attentional binding in visual working memory. Her current research interests include computational modeling of expectations and visuomotor interactions.
Email: suheyla.aydemir[at]bilkent.edu.tr
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 toward neurocomputational modeling, 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
Betül Beyza Cengil
Betül Beyza Cengil graduated from Çankaya University’s psychology undergraduate program in 2020 and the Cognitive Psychology master program in 2023. She is currently a PhD student in Bilkent University’s Neuroscience program. Before starting her PhD, her research area was memory processes, false memory mainly, and emotion. Now, she has shifted her research area to the visuomotor processes and how expectation affects these processes. She has also been a research assistant at the Social Sciences University of Ankara since 2021.
Email: beyza.cengil[at]bilkent.edu.tr
Zeynep Erçetin
Zeynep Erçetin graduated from the Social Sciences University of Ankara in the psychology department in 2024. She is currently a Master’s student in Bilkent University’s Neuroscience program. Her research interests are mainly perception and decision-making.
Email: zeynep.ercetin[at]bilkent.edu.tr
Ezgi Gündoğdu
Ezgi Gündoğdu completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Yaşar University in 2020 and earned her MSc in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience from Eötvös Loránd University in 2024. She is currently a PhD student in the Neuroscience program at Bilkent University. Her previous research focused on spatiotemporal perception and visual consciousness. Her current research interests include computational approaches to modeling and vision, with an emphasis on understanding the neural mechanisms of perception.
Ghina Saadedeen
MS student in the Neuroscience program.
İrem Şişman
MS student in the Neuroscience program.
Batuhan Kürşat Ünal
Batuhan Kürşat Ünal completed his BSc. degree at Bilkent University Physics department in 2022 and earned his MSc. degree from the University of Bologna in Physics, specializing in Applied Physics. He is currently a PhD Student in the Neuroscience program at Bilkent University. He previously worked on the integration of prior information with sensory input during perceptual decision-making tasks in healthy participants using EEG and TMS, incorporating predictive coding into his research. His research interests lie in predictive processing, vision, perception, and decision-making.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
İlkay Bilge Uz
Alumni
Merve Kınıklıoğlu (PhD, 2023)
Amna Malik (PhD, 2023)
Buse Merve Urgen (PhD, 2021)
Zahide Pamir (PhD, 2017)
Pinar Demirayak (PhD, 2018)
Dilara Erişen (MS, 2020)
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)
Zeynep Büşra Ayar (BA, 2023)
Ecenur Bilgiç (BA, 2023)
Busra Tugce Gurbuz (BA, 2022)
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