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Efe Soyman

Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

PhD in Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, 2018

MS in Behavioral and System Neuroscience, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, 2015

BA in Psychology, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Türkiye, 2011

Research Interests: Social Cognition, Emotions, Auditory Perception, Neural Oscillations, Electrophysiology

Pınar Demir

Graduate Student, PhD in Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

MA in Psychology, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Türkiye, 2024

BA in Psychology, Altınbaş University, Istanbul, Türkiye, 2021

Research Interests: Visual and Auditory Perception, Affordances, Automatic Action Tendencies, Mirror Neuron System, EEG and ERP

Ata Deniz Kaplan

Undergraduate Student, BA in Psychology, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Research Interests: Social Cognition, Gestalt Principles of Perception, Theory of Mind, Neurological Basis of Human Learning, Risk-Taking Behavior, Music Cognition

Cem Karbuz

Undergraduate Student, BA in Psychology and BA in Sociology, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Research Interests: Social Metacognition, Social Decision-Making, Data Analysis and Visualization in Psychology, Computational Modelling

Ecem Duy

Undergraduate Student, BA in Psychology and BA in Economics, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Research Interests: Emotion Perception, Consciousness, Decision-Making Processes

Fatmanur Etili

Undergraduate Student, BA in Psychology, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Research Interests: Neural Basis of Emotions, Emotion Perception, Decision-Making, Effective Altruism

Mahnoor Atta

Undergraduate Student, BA in Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Research Interests: False Memory, Sleep Disorders, Emotion Perception

Nurşah Şirin

Undergraduate Student, BA in Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Research Interests: Empathy, Consciousness, Emotion Perception, Decision-Making, Effective Altruism

Sarp Büyükarda

Undergraduate Student, BA in Psychology and BA in Business Administration, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Research Interests: Sensory Perception and Illusions, Placebo Effect, Affective Disorders, Pain Perception and Management, False Memory, Human Conditioning

Serra Kaptanoğlu

Undergraduate Student, BA in Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Research Interests: Emotion Regulation, Social Cognition, Neural Mechanisms Underlying Sleep State, EEG

Collaborators

Christian Keysers, Social Brain Lab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Valeria Gazzola, Social Brain Lab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Tilbe Göksun, Language and Cognition Lab, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Demet Özer, Multimodal Language Lab, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Past Members

Ayşe Nur Badakul ’24

Berfin Mısırlı ’24

Eda Demir ’24 (subsequent enrollment: MS in Mind and Brain, Humboldt University, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Berlin, Germany)

Fatma Sena Yılmaz ’24 (subsequent enrollment: MA in Clinical Psychology, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Türkiye)

Melda Sandıkçı ’24 (subsequent enrollment: PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Delaware, USA)

Nazlı Bronz Arıcan ’24 (subsequent enrollment: MS in Neuroscience, Georg-August University of Göttingen, International Max Planck Research School of Neuroscience, Göttingen, Germany)

Barış Kaan Ok ’22 (subsequent enrollment: MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy)

Çağla Nur Demirkan ’22 (subsequent enrollment: MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience, Freie University Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

Elif Cantürk ’22

Nurdem Okur ’22 (subsequent enrollment: MSc in Cognitive Science, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany)

Yaren Beyza Türkmen ’22 (subsequent enrollment: MA in Clinical Psychology, Işık University, Istanbul, Türkiye)