Principle Investigator

 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dicle N. Dövencioğlu

PhD. School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK

MSc. Cognitive Science, Informatics Institute, METU

BSc. Department of Mathematics, METU

Research focus: Multisensory shape and material perception and sound symbolism using behavioral, psychophysics, and fMRI methods.

Teaching: PSY2202 Perception (Rest 1 Group), PSY2204 Perceptual Processes (Rest 1 Group),

PSY4205 Perceptual Illusions (Rest 1 Group), PSY4206 Psychophysics (Rest 1 Group),

PSY5203 Trends in Vision Sciences (Grad)

Office: Beseri Building Room B45

Virtual office: https://zoom.us/my/dicle

METU e-mail handle: dicled

Postgraduate Students

Saliha Arabacı (M. Sc.) began her undergraduate education at Istanbul Sehir University and graduated from Marmara University in 2021. She earned her master's degree in psychology from Ankara Yıldırım Beyazit University and is currently pursuing her PhD in the Psychology Department at METU.

Research focus: Visual perception, visual processes, ensemble perception and animacy perception.

Ceyda Koca received her Bachelor's degree in Anthropology at Istanbul University, Turkey in 2022. She's currently an MSc student at the Psychology department at Metu and is interested in cognitive evolution.

Research focus: Affordance, affordance perception, tool use, and cognitive evolution

İrem Tuncel is a Ph.D. student in the Cognitive Psychology program at Middle East Technical University (METU). She completed her Master's degree in the same program with a thesis titled "The Effect of Material Sound on Material Perception through Turkish Sound Symbolic Words" and holds a bachelor's degree in psychology, also from METU. Her research interests focus on natural material sounds, multisensory material perception, and sound symbolism. In addition to these, she is a comic book lover.

Research focus:  Natural material sounds, multisensory material perception, and sound symbolism.

Defne Akkuş received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Middle East Technical University, where she also completed a minor in Philosophy of Science and Logic. She is currently a Master's student in the Cognitive Psychology program at METU. Her research broadly focuses on perception and language, with particular interest in how sensory experiences and symbolic processes shape human understanding across different modalities and languages.

Research focus: Sound symbolism, material perception, haptic perception, and psycholinguistics.

Habibe Sena Dündar is a PhD student in the Cognitive Psychology program at Middle East Technical University. She received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from KTO Karatay University and completed her Master's degree at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University with a thesis titled "Processing Face Pareidolia: Does Body Dysmorphia Tendency Make a Difference?". Her research interests focus on visual sensory perception, particularly face perception.

Research focus: Face perception, face pareidolia, and illusory faces.

Undergraduate Assistants

Alper Artan

İlknur Kaya

Alumni

Büşra Akdoğan, Defne Akdemir, Dr. Görkem Baysal, Gamze Cengiz, Betül Ayça Coşar, Elif Gülare Çakır, Fatma Çelebi, İzel Deniz Vardar, Zelal Eltaş, Melis Hazır, Fatma Kılıç, Hamza Nalbantoğlu, Alper Soylu, Okan Tayiz, Nefes Tekin, Yunus Emre Türkmen, Özce Özceçelik, Öykü Göze Özdemir, Ebru Özden, Gökhan Özmen, Ömer Faruk Yıldıran, Gamze Yıldız, Sude Yüksel