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We organized the 10th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science (ISBCS) together with the Cognitive Science Program, Informatics Institute at METU on 01/06/2024. METU Sense members...

Fatma's new paper is accepted for publication: Kılıç, F. & Dövencioğlu, D. N. (2024) Visual Softness Perception Can Be Manipulated Through Exploratory Procedures, Perception She reports two...

Yansıma kelimelerle ilgili bir çalışma için gönüllü katılımcılar arıyoruz. Üç farklı anketten istediğiniz birine, ikisine veya hepsine katılabilirsiniz. İlgilenebilecek tanıdıklarınızla bu ilanı...

Our TÜBİTAK 1002 project proposal in collaboration with Dr Dilay Karadöller and the Multimodal Language & Cognitive Development Lab got funding for a year. We will be exploring material...

Hamza and Melis published their work on Turkish sound symbolism in Frontiers of Psychology: Nalbantoğlu, H., Hazır, B.M., Dövencioğlu, D.N. (2023) Selectively manipulating softness perception of...

Our proposal on Material Properties of Shape Dynamics got 3-years funding from the ADEP Program!

We went to International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science at Özyeğin University Campus. Fatma Kılıç presented her poster: "Bidirectional Relationship Between Haptic Exploration and...

Fatma successfully defended her MSc thesis: The Role of Prior Knowledge and Visual Cues on Perceived Softness!   

Our proposal "Visual Haptic Material Perception through Sound Symbolism" got funding from TUBİTAK! 

Happy new year from the lab :)

Students presented their final projects on Perceptual Illusions Demo Day.        

Field trip to METU Science Center  

Is it possible to teach the complexity of our sense of touch to robots? MetuSense featured in the popular science show Bilim Her Yerde - Haptic Robotics episode (in Turkish).

Captain Deniz Özhan of Turkish Airlines gave a talk on vestibular illusions in aviation, it was both comprehensive and fun!   

Burcu Ayşen Ürgen from Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab Bilkent University gave a talk on recent work from her lab: "Top-down and bottom-up processing of biological motion perception in...

On the Undergrad Research Day, Aybüke Bilir, Deniz Vardar, and Fatma Çelebi presented their AdımODTÜ project on online shopping and materials. They came first among 64 posters and they got the poster...

On the Undergrad Research Day, Ömer Faruk Yıldıran presented his AdımODTÜ project on the Parchment Skin Illusion and gave a talk about his success in The Global Undergraduate Awards.  

The Global Undergraduate Awards: Ömer Faruk Yıldıran's course project on Parchment Skin Illusion has been highly commended in Psychology category amongst 2489 entries from 45 countries. Well done...

Dr. Didem Kadihasanoğlu will be joining us next week to discuss her article "control of visually-guided braking using constant and proportional rate". Attendance is by registration only, so please...

The National Neuroscience Congress 2020 took place online where several panels were held and guests attended for a period of four days. Dr. Dicle Dövencioğlu, aside from taking part in the...

Assistant Prof. Dicle Dövencioğlu, from METU Psychology Department was awarded within the scope of the "For Women in Science" program, in cooperation with L'Oréal-UNESCO by her "Multidimensionality...

Müge Cavdan, who is currently a Ph.D. student at Justus-Liebeg University in Germany attended our lab meetings as a guest speaker. She has recently won the Best Paper Award at 2020 ...

Six summer interns from METU Psychology volunteered to work on softness perception this year -after completing a short Matlab course! They have watched videos for hand movement analyses for haptic...