Academic Staff
Emre Özgen (Head of Department)
PhD, University of Surrey, UK, 2000.
Former affiliation: University of Surrey, UK
Research interests: cognitive penetrability of vision; colour perception, flexible spatial frequency processing in early vision.
Office: A-353, ext. 3415, (90 312 290 3415)
PhD, Stanford, USA, 1980
Former affiliation: Tulane University, USA
Research interests: cognitive sciences, philosophy of mind, theory of mind, consciousness, evolutionary cognition.
Office: G-128B, ext. 1111, (90 312 290 1111)
PhD, University of London, UK, 1988
Former affiliation: University of Durham, UK
Judgment and decision making; consumer behaviour; probability and risk; forecasting; cognitive expertise; knowledge-engineering for expert systems; decision-support systems; quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Office: A-354A, ext. 1807, (90 312 290 1807)
PhD, Bilkent University, Turkey, 1999
Former affiliations: New York University, USA; University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA
Research interests: Contextual influences on early stages of human visual system; Perception of color and lightness.
Office: A-343, ext. 1148, (90 312 290 1148)
PhD, New York University, USA, 2006
Former affiliation: Minnesota at Twin Cities, USA
Research interests: Perception of material, color and lightness; Early visual processing of image contrast.
Office: A-344, ext. 1153, (90 312 290 1153)
PhD, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, USA,1998
Former affiliation: Cambridge University, UK
Research interests: theory of mind, affect-cognition interactions, consciousness, normativity,
and action execution and understanding with an interdisciplinary approach - spanning experimental psychology (cognitive and
developmental), theoretical neuroscience and evolutionary biology, and
philosophy of mind.
Office: A-351A, ext. 1090, (90 312 290 1090)
Oliver Wright
PhD, University of Surrey, UK, 2006
Former affiliation: University of Surrey, UK
Research interests: categorical perception, color perception, the development of representational and meta-representational abilities and, more generally, linguistic influences on cognitive processes. Current research projects include; investigating influences of stimulus range on categorical color perception, influences of stimulus range on visual search tasks and the role of evidential markers in development of representational thought.
Office: A-354B, ext. 1728, (90 312 290 1728)
Administrative Staff
Duygu Degirmenci (administrative assistant)
