Graduates

MA graduate in cognitive psychology, lifelong Koç University and KURAM member. My research interests lie at the intersection of memory and language, including working memory, lexical organization, multilingualism, and executive functions. Off the clock, I aim to learn so many languages that are seldom useful for anything. I am a latin dancer, pianist, and secretly aspiring to be a travelling food blogger.

I have a BA degree in Psychology from Bogazici University and am now a PhD student in the Neuroscience program at Koc University. My research interests lie in cognitive and neural mechanisms of self and identity, and how those mechanisms are affected in mental disorders. I currently study the underlying changes in autobiographical memory quality (i.e.: vantage point, belongingness, imagery) resulting from life-long exposure to chronic, traumatic and daily stressors as they relate to reward mechanisms, negative repetitive thinking and avoidance. I use behavioral and physiological measures in my research.

I am a PhD candidate in Psychology. My main area of interest is number perception, and I am especially curious about how/if a number sense independent of continuous magnitudes (such as area, density, convex hull) exists. In my spare time, I like to read short stories (especially sci-fi), learn about programming and statistics, and I recently developed a curiosity towards farming. These cool things aside, I also spend a lot of time doing useless and unproductive things (e.g., binge watching tv shows or youtube videos).

As a former pharmacology student who switched to psychology in undergrad and now a first year MA student in psychology, has been in love with psychology and always will be. Lately enjoys contemplating about how and why people think about their past experiences that might have turned out differently. Not only interested in how we construct our past, but also amazed by the idea that thinking about the future might be dependent on how we think about the past. Even the term “mental time travel” excites her and hopes that the Doctor will be proud. Spent years in language labs as an undergraduate and now interested in research on how memory and language can come to play together.