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I am an Ankara-based researcher at Hacettepe University, Turkey. My research investigates language, memory and embodied cognition from a data science and psycholinguistic perspective. I publish in national and international journals and am currently supervising graduate research projects on psycholinguistics and cognitive translation and interpreting studies. I have extensive experience in experimental research design (behavioural and eye-tracking), programming (Phyton), statistical analysis (R, mixed-effects modelling) and data visualisation (ggplot2).

I act as a referee for several international journals including Cognition, Psychological Research, Memory, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications and The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, as well as for grants from the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK). I am a co-editor of Translation, Cognition & Behavior from John Benjamins. Previously, I was an associate editor of the Hacettepe University Journal of the Faculty of Letters. I am the proud recipient of the Hacettepe University Science Incentive Award 2019 in Social Sciences.

I am a supporter of open, transparent and reproducible science. I like to write, code and analyse data with my custom playlists playing in the background. I believe that the future lies in interdisciplinary research. See the video below for my academic journey (courtesy of the Digital Story Hub, Faculty of Communication, Hacettepe University).


Education

  • PhD in Psychology, 2019
    University of Birmingham
    Thesis title: Looking for language in space: Spatial simulations in memory for language (.Birmingham etheses) (Responsive web)
    Supervisor: Dr Robin L Thompson
    Viva examiners: Dr Steven Frisson (University of Birmingham), Dr Daniel Richardson (University College London)

  • MSc in Psychology, 2014 (distinction)
    University of Birmingham
    Thesis title: Effect of speech rate and overlapping on multimodal language processing: Evidence from eye movements (.pdf)

  • MA in Translation & Interpreting, 2011
    Hacettepe University
    Thesis title: Visual focal loci in simultaneous interpreting (.pdf)

  • BA in Translation & Interpreting, 2008
    Hacettepe University

Interests

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Memory for language
  • Grounded-embodied cognition
  • Cognitive translation & interpreting studies

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