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Yes you can! 👏🏻🧠 #softness #perception #materials #hand #movement

@nciAyhan3 @isbcs2024 @METU_ODTU Let's have a joint lab meeting Boun Vision Lab! 😃

Boun Vision Lab @isbcs2024 💫 It was great to catch up with the Cog Sci community @METU_ODTU this year! 🫶🏻

What a wonderful group of panelists @isbcs2024: my MS thesis advisor Samet Bağçe, my sister @busemerveurgen, my dear friends and colleagues @ZahidePamir @DDovencioglu @barbarosyet! #isbcs2024

In other news, I am hoping to be @ecvp_ in Aberdeen this year 🥳with a talk on the Sound symbolic characteristics of natural materials 🔊 See you there if I am granted a visa... 😃

Biz de bilişsel/deneysel YL ve Doktora bursiyerleri arıyoruz @MetuSense Başvurular başladı, mezun olacaklara duyurulur 😊🎓

Ankete davet: Yansıma kelimeler anketimiz için 10 dakikanız var mı? | METU Sense sense.psy.metu.edu.tr/en/announcemen… via @MetuSense @DilayKaradoller

Psikoloji Bölümü öğretim üyemiz Dr. Dicle Dövencioğlu ile #Neuralink'in ilk kez bir insana yerleştirildiğini duyurduğu beyin çipi üzerine konuştuk. 🧠🛜 @DDovencioglu @METUSense #elonmusk #neuralink #nöroteknoloji #beyinçipi #neuroscience #yks2024 #ODTÜ #METU

Our new paper is out: Turkish #onomatopoeia and material perception 🥳 Well done Hamza & Melis! @MetuSense

So will I! If you are interested in a grad study on material perception (visual/haptic), sound symbolism, psychophysics, and/or fMRI @MetuSense, reach out to me & apply before July 3.

One postdoc position #material #perception and #layerdecomposition @MetuSense Some info about @METU_ODTU can be found here: metu.edu.tr/general-inform… and here: iso.metu.edu.tr/en/cost-living and here: metu.edu.tr/sports-facilit… You can email me for other inquiries!

Multiple Master's, Ph.D., and postdoc positions are available @MetuSense in our recent Tübitak and ADEP projects. If you are interested, reach out to me!

Burs başvuruları için: bicaba.tubitak.gov.tr

Biz de yürüttüğümüz çalışmalarla ilgilenen bursiyerleri bekliyoruz. Depremden etkilenmiş Lisans/YL/Doktora veya Doktora Sonrası araştırmacılara iletebilirsiniz. @MetuSense @akilicozhan

I will be recruiting MSc students, PhD students, and a postdoc for 3 Tübitak projects that explore 1) the two-way interactions between memory & attention, 2) adaptive interplays between working and long-term memories, and 3) event segmentation. Get in touch if interested!

Fatma successfully defended her thesis! 🥳

Our paper is out! Very briefly: Perceived softness is not just compliance, silk and sand can also be soft. We use stereotypical hand movements while exploring these soft materials. Analyses for around 1500 2-min videos of people touching stuff 🫰🤏 👋doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Captain Deniz Özhan from Turkish Airlines will give a seminar on Vestibular Illusions in Aviation tomorrow as part of @DDovencioglu’s PSY4205 Perceptual Illusions class. All interested are welcome! 🧠 May 16, Monday, 12:40 Dep. of Basic English Building E Block, Auditorium 1

Thanks Dicle Hoca (@DDovencioglu) for her invitation! Quite excited to talk about our research on biological motion perception and attention today at ODTÜ!

Asst. Prof. Burcu Ayşen Ürgen from Bilkent University will be a guest to give a talk on recent work from her lab: "Top-down and bottom-up processing of biological motion perception in the human brain” All interested are welcome!

7-8 Eylül’de gerçekleşecek Deneysel-Bilişsel Psikoloji Sempozyumuna Dr. @DDovencioglu’nun “Yumuşaklık Algısını Etkileyen Bilişsel Süreçler” isimli konuşması ve yüksek lisans öğrencilerimiz @melishazir ve @FatmaKILI10’ın poster sunumlarıyla katılıyoruz. Herkesi bekleriz! 🧠