ONGOING RESEARCH

FACE RECOGNITION

Effects of Face Familiarity Level on Ensemble Coding of Face Identity (Ayşegül Aydınlık, ongoing PhD project under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sonia Amado)

EMOTION and COGNITION

Emotion and Visual Attention/Perception

Investigation of Attentional Bias of Emotional Stimuli in Framework of Appraisal Theory (Merve Boğa, ongoing PhD project under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Koyuncu)

The effect of fearful facial expression on early level visual perception (Elvan Arıkan İyilikci, Emre Özgen from Yaşar University, & Sonia Amado)

Affective Evaluation and Semantic Categorization of Emotional Stimuli (Tülay Yıldırım, Sonia Amado)

Emotion and Memory

Emotion and Metamemory: The Effects of Emotional Content on Prospective Metamemory Judgments (Pınar Kurdoğlu Ersoy, ongoing PhD project under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Aycan Kapucu)

The Effects of Emotional Contextual Information of Feeling-of-Knowing Judgments (Pınar Kurdoğlu Ersoy, Aycan Kapucu, Bennett L. Schwartz, granted by TUBİTAK)

Can Emotional Memory Errors Be Corrected? A Diffusion Model-Based Investigation (Elif Yüvrük, Aycan Kapucu, Jeffrey Starns, granted by TUBİTAK)

The Investigation of Emotional Certainty and Uncertainty Effects on Recognition Memory Decisions with Diffusion Modelling (Elif Yüvrük, ongoing PhD project under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Aycan Kapucu)

Evaluation of Episodic Memory Processes for Neutral Stimuli Which Acquired Emotional Significance (Sinem Söylemez, ongoing PhD project under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Aycan Kapucu)

Recognition memory for specific emotion words. (Aycan Kapucu, Caren Rotello -UMass Amherst)

Effects of motivational intensity on memory narrowing. (Yıldız Özkılıç, Aycan Kapucu, Sonia Amado)

Effects of motivational intensity on false memory. (Yıldız Özkılıç, Sonia Amado, Aycan Kapucu)

The role of cognitive load on working memory for emotional facial expressions (Gülin Kaça, Selahattin Baklacı, Tülay Yıldırım, Sonia Amado)

Emotion and Decision-Making

The effect of emotional (un)certainty on intuitive vs. deliberative processing strategies (Elvan Arıkan İyilikci, Sonia Amado, & Aycan Kapucu)

The effect of emotional (un)certainty on Iowa gambling task performance (Elvan Arıkan İyilikci & Sonia Amado)

The effect of emotional (un)certainty on decisional fit (Elvan Arıkan İyilikci, Gözde Tuncer, & Sonia Amado)

Fearful facial expression enhances and impairs decision making performance on the Iowa gambling task (Elvan Arıkan İyilikci, Ramazan Akdemir, Sonia Amado, & Osman İyilikci)

Emotion and Time Perception

           The Effect of Emotion on Time Perception (Aslan Karaaslan, ongoing PhD project under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sonia Amado)

           The Effects of Uncertainty and Negative High Emotional Arousal on Time Perception (Aslan Karaaslan, granted by TUBITAK)        

Emotion and Social Cognition

Influences of Shame and Guilt Emotions on Perspective Taking (Sinem Söylemez, Mehmet Koyuncu)

ATTENTION, PERCEPTION, MEMORY

The Causes Of Change Blindness Phenomenon With Eye Movements: Could İnhibition Of Return Explain This Phenomenon? (B. Nilay Türkan, Osman İyilikci, Lars Kuchinke, Marcel Meyer)

Investigation of Change Blindness Phenomenon In Terms Of High Level Scene Perception (B. Nilay Türkan, Osman İyilikci, Sonia Amado)

Investigation of the attentional boost effect (Gülin Kaça, Sonia Amado)

The investigation of blocking effect in category learning for different modalities (Gülin Kaça, Tülay Yıldırım)

APPLIED COGNITION

Sports Psychology

Investigation of the Facilitating Effects of Acute Aerobic Exercise on Executive Function of Bilingual and Monolingual İndividuals (Melis P. Keskin, ongoing M.Sc. project under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Koyuncu)

The effects of uniforms in different colors wear by keeper and different background colors on penalty kick (Gamze Üngür, Mehmet Koyuncu, Onur Tütüncü, Merve Boğa, Batuhan Yıldız)

Traffic Psychology

The Effect of Emotion on Driver’s Attention and Peripheral View (Tansu Alavcı, ongoing M.Sc. project under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Koyuncu)

A validity study of the Adaptive Matrices Test in road drivers (Gülin Kaça, Mehmet Koyuncu, Beyza Akkoyunlu)

A validity study of the Peripheral Perception-R Test in road drivers (Gülin Kaça, Mehmet Koyuncu, Mert Eren Erdoğan)

COGNITIVE REHABILITATION

The improvement of open head injury patient’s attention skills with cognitive rehabilitation (Gülin Kaça, Celal Eren, Seda Eroğlu & Sonia Amado)

The improvement of attention and memory skills with cognitive rehabilitation following aneurysmal hemorrhage : A case study (Gülin Kaça, Selin Bilgin, Seda Eroğlu & Sonia Amado)

NORMING/STANDARDIZATION

Developing a standardized set of Turkish words with normative ratings for discrete emotion categories. (Aycan Kapucu, Aslı Kılıç -METU, Yıldız Özkılıç, Bengisu Sarıbaz, Sonia Amado)

Development of a standardized set of emotion-eliciting film clips (Elvan Arıkan İyilikci, Yıldız Özkılıç Kartal, Merve Boğa, Elif Yüvrük, Osman İyilikci, & Sonia Amado)

Development of a scale to measure discrete emotional states (Osman İyillikci, Elvan Arıkan İyilikci, & Oya Somer)

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Different Mood Induction Procedures in Evoking Spesific Emotions (Merve Boğa, Mehmet Koyuncu, T.Onur Bayazıt)