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).

I am an autobiographical memory researcher interested in the functions of our personal memories and how recollecting the past can be used to project the future. I also teach Learning&Cognition and Experimental Psychology Courses. I have side projects on the relationship between autobiographical recall and normal aging, the effects of normal aging on details of recollections, and phenomenological experience. I received my PhD in 2024… Bingo, I believe asking specific questions about the PhD milestones is very offensive 🙂 

I received my PhD in Psychology from Koç University at 2024. As a proud side-member of KURAM, I am mainly interested in how we monitor and control our cognitive processes – that we generally call as metacognition. I study metacognition with memory processes and under social influence. I also study whether we could enhance the efficiency in which we track our performance using gestures in developmentally diverse populations. When not working, I mostly eat chocolate, make plans for a short-escapade from the city, enjoy concerts, movies, and books.

After earning my bachelor’s degree in linguistics from Boğaziçi University, I received a master’s degree in cognitive psychology from Koç University. My research focuses on involuntary mental time travel, but more broadly, I am interested in all spontaneous thought processes and mind-wandering. Through my work, I aim to understand the factors affecting the flow of ongoing thought. My quest continues outside the lab too, as I try to observe my thoughts during meditative states. Alongside my academic goals, I aspire to become a part-time ceramicist. I spend my free time crocheting, drawing, cuddling my dog, and doing yoga. I am an avid reader of comic books and novels, especially science fiction.

I received my PhD in Cognitive Psychology and very happy to be a part of the KURAM lab. I am fascinated by autobiographical memory—specifically involuntary autobiographical memories. I conducted studies investigating specific sensory cues that can elicit involuntary memories, specifically affective auditory cues. Other than involuntary memories, I am interested in false eyewitness memory and adaptive memory. In addition to these, in my doctoral thesis, I have plans to study open autobiographical memories on which individuals do not have closure and involuntary recall of these memories. Apart from psychology, I am in love with my dog, Lucy. I enjoy observing her impressive (and sometimes weird) reactions. I love traveling, music, horror books/movies (huge Stephen King fan!), and forensics.

I received my MA in cognitive psychology. I am mainly interested in memory and language interaction. One of my main research focuses is the effect of gesture use on autobiographical memory recall and future thinking. In my spare time, I like watching the same movies and TV shows over and over, and spending time with my friends and my cat. I also started a new hobby, wood carving.

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.