Education and Professional Profile

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Assistant Professor, Sabancı University, Istanbul                                                                                         since 2020

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Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University                                                                                   2017-2019          Advisor: Dr.Mariam Aly

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Chicago                                                                                     2015-2017

          Advisors: Dr. Edward Awh and Dr. Edward K. Vogel

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Visiting Research Scholar, Duke University                                                                                                              2015

         Advisor: Dr. Tobias Egner

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Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, VU University Amsterdam                                                                                 2011-2015          Advisors: Dr. Martijn Meeter and Dr. Chris Olivers

 

Research Assistant & Lab Manager, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey                                                   2009-2011

          Advisor: Dr. Aysecan Boduroglu - Cognitive Processes Lab

 

M.Sc., Cognitive Psychology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey                                                              2008-2011

          Advisor: Dr. Aysecan Boduroglu

 

B.A., Physics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey                                                                                       2003-2008

 

 

Publications

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Ataseven, N., Ünver, N., & Günseli, E. (2024). How does divided attention hinder different stages of episodic memory retrieval?. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences.

Güler, B., Adıgüzel, Z., Uysal, B., & Günseli, E. (2024). Discrete memories of a continuous world: A working memory perspective on event segmentation. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences.

Günseli, E., Foster, J., Sutterer, D., Todorova, L., Vogel, E. K., & Awh, E. (2024). Overlapping neural representations for dynamic visual imagery and stationary storage in spatial working memory. iScience.

Nolden, S., Turan, G., Güler, B., & Günseli, E. (2024). Prediction error and event segmentation in episodic memory. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.

Şentürk, Y. D., Ünver, N., Demir, C., Egner, T., Günseli, E. (2024). The interplay between the memory reactivation of items and task rules. Cortex, 171. 465-480

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Günseli, E., Aly, M. (2020). Preparation for upcoming attentional states in the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. eLife

 

Tarder-Stoll, H., Jayakumar, M., Dimsdale-Zucker, H. R., Gunseli, E., & Aly, M. (2020). Dynamic internal states shape memory retrieval. Neuropsychologia, 138

 

Günseli, E., Fahrenfort, J., van Moorselaar, D, Daoultzis, K., Meeter, M., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2019). EEG dynamics reveal a dissociation between selective attention and storage in working memory. Scientific Reports.

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Hakim, N., Adam, K. C. S., Gunseli, E., Awh, E., Vogel, E. K. (2019). Dissecting the neural focus of attention reveals distinct processes for spatial attention and object-based storage in visual working memory. Psychological Science

 

van Driel, J., Gunseli, E., Meeter, M., & Olivers, C. N. (2017). Local and interregional alpha EEG dynamics dissociate between memory for search and memory for recognition. NeuroImage, 149, 114-128.

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Gunseli, E., Meeter, M., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2016). Task-Irrelevant Memories Rapidly Gain Attentional Control with Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

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Gunseli, E., van Moorselaar, D., Meeter, M., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2015). The reliability of retro-cues determines the fate of non-cued visual working memory representations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22(5), 1334-1341.

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van Moorselaar, D., Gunseli, E., Theeuwes, J., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2015). The time course of protecting a visual memory representation from perceptual interference. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 1053.

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Gunseli, E., Meeter, M., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2014). Is a search template an ordinary working memory? Comparing electrophysiological markers of working memory maintenance for visual search and recognition. Neuropsychologia,60, 29-38.

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Gunseli, E., Olivers, C. N. L., & Meeter, M. (2014). Effects of search difficulty on the selection, maintenance, and learning of attentional templates. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 26, 2042-2054.

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Recent Conference Presentations and Abstracts, and Invited Colloquia

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Günseli, E. (2020, November). Dissociating spatial attention and object storage in visual working memory. Inivited talk at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

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Günseli, E., Aly, M. (2019, May). Memory-based attentional states are established by the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. Talk at Manhattan Area Memory Meeting, Princeton, NJ, USA

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Günseli, E., Aly, M. (2019, May). Memory-based attentional states are established by the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. Poster at the Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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Günseli, E. (2019, April). Interactions between memory and attention. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.

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Gunseli, E., Aly, M. (2019, April). Memory-based attentional states are established by the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. Talk at Columbia University Colloquium, New York, NY, USA

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Gunseli, E., Aly, M. (2019, March). Switching between attention and memory in the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. Poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Günseli, E. (2019, January). How attention is guided by, and directed to, memory. Sabancı University, Turkey.

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Günseli, E. (2019, January). How attention is guided by, and directed to, memory. Bilkent University, Turkey.

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Gunseli, E., Foster, J., Sutterer D., Vogel, E., Awh, E. (2016, November). Alpha-Band Activity Tracks Updates to the Content of Spatial Working Memory. Talk presented at Object Perception Attention Memory, Boston, MA, USA.

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Dowd, E. W., Gunseli, E., Meeter, M., Olivers, C. N., Egner, T. (2016, May). Changes in task-irrelevant context invoke updating of task-relevant representations in working memory. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete, FL, USA.

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Grants and Fellowships

Middle East Technical University Mustafa Parlar Foundation Research Award, 2023
 

The Academy of Science Young Scientist Award, 2023

 

Psychonomic Society 2023 Best Article for Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
 

Scientific and Technological Research Projects Support Program by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2023. (1.138.200,00; €62,000 at the time of application)

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Tübitak 3501 Career Development Grant by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2022. (600,000 TL; €33,000 at the time of application)

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Scientific and Technological Research Projects Support Program by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2022. (720.000 TL; $49.114 at the time of application)

 

Sabancı University President's Research Fund, 2021 (300.000 TL; $31,450 at the time of application)

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Rapid Funding Grant, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2021 (50.000 TL; $5,800 at the time of acceptance)

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Integration Projects Support, Sabancı University, 2020 (100.000 TL; $13,550.14 at the time of acceptance)

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International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2019. (2.596.685 TL; $467,029 at the time of acceptance)

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VU University, Amsterdam, Faculty of Psychology and Education Talent Fund – Funding for International visits of talented PhD students and postdocs with the aim of carrying out research abroad, 2015. (€5.000)

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Bogazici University Foundation – Conference Participation Fellowship, 2010 for Annual Workshop of Object Perception, Attention and Memory. St. Louis.

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Bogazici University Faculty of Arts and Sciences – Poster/Presentation Conference Participation Fellowship, 2010 for Annual Workshop of Object Perception, Attention and Memory. St. Louis.

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Prime Minister’s Grant*, 2003-2008.

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Thrust and Dormitories Institution Grant*, 2003-2008.

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* Prime Minister’s Grant and Thrust and Dormitories Institution Grant are awarded to the students, who took place in top 5-10 percent at university entrance exam in Turkey, during undergraduate education

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