Research at Bilkent Psychology
Our team of academics are prolific in research, publishing in high impact ISI-indexed journals. Publications by the faculty have appeared in such prestigeous journals as Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Nature Neuroscience, Current Biology, Cognition, Vision Research, Visual Neuroscience, Visual Cognition, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
Please visit the personal websites of the members of our team for full lists of publications as well as detailed information on research activity.
Some major areas of research interest are as follows.
- Cognitive penetrability of vision;
- Colour vision;
- Categorical perception;
- Language and categorical colour perception;
- Linguistic influences on cognitive processes;
- Development of colour categories in children;
- Flexible spatial frequency processing in early vision;
- Visual psychophysics;
- Contextual influences on early stages of human visual system;
- Perception of color and lightness;
- Perception of material, color and lightness;
- Early visual processing of image contrast;
- 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;
- Theory of mind in children;
- Development of representational and meta-representational abilities;
- Evolutionary cognition;
- Affect-cognition interactions;
- Consciousness;
- Normativity;
- Action execution and understanding;
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