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)