İnci Ayhan
Perception
Assistant Professor
Chair, Cognitive Science Program
First-year student advisor
+90 212 359 70 51
- PhD, University College London, 2010
- BS, Middle East Technical University, 2007 (Double Major: Biology)
- BS, Middle East Technical University, 2006 (Psychology)
Chair, Cognitive Science Program (http://cogsci.boun.edu.tr/)
Vision Lab: https://visionlab.boun.edu.tr/en
- Sensation and Perception
- Introduction to Statistics for Psychology
- Experimental Psychology
- Research Methods in Psychology
- Advanced Cognitive Psychology
- Matlab Programming for Psychologists
- Readings and Research in Visual Perception
- Visual perception
- Temporal processing in the visual system
- Time perception
- Visuo-motor interaction
- Visual adaptation
- Mapping visual deformations in Macular Degeneration
Completed Theses
- Interaction between cyberbodies and cyberspace: The effect of the abilities of avatars on affordance perception in virtual reality (Tuğçe Akkoç, supervisor: I Ayhan, co-supervisor: E Uğur)
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Temporal experience: Perception and action dynamics (Melisa Kurtcan, supervisor: L Thorpe, co-supervisor: I Ayhan)
- A psychophysical investigation and a philosophical discussion on event-time perception (Doğa Gülhan, supervisor: I Ayhan, co-supervisor: L Thorpe)
- The role of attention on scene recognition (Berhan Şenyazar, supervisor: I Ayhan, co-supervisor: AA Salah)
- Sensorimotor interaction and time perception: An empirical study and a philosophical discussion (Duygu Özbağcı, supervisor: I Ayhan, co-supervisor: L Thorpe)
Ongoing Projects & Theses
- Motion-induced prediction mechanisms in visual system (Didem Alaşhan, Dilce Tanriverdi & Mehmet Yoruten, supervised by İnci Ayhan)
- Measuring image distortions in patients with age-related macular degeneration with an Iterative Amsler Grid (IAG) (İnci Ayhan, Johannes Zanker & Edward Doyle)
- Perceived duration of multimodal stimuli (Didem Alaşhan, supervised by İnci Ayhan & Reşit Canbeyli)
- The contextual effect of colour preference on the perception of emotionally ambiguous faces (Didem Alaşhan & Doğa Gülhan, supervised by İnci Ayhan)
Publications
Kurtcan, A. M., Thorpe, L. & Ayhan, I. (In Prep.) A Motor Recalibration Influence on Colour-Motion Asynchrony in a Visuo-Motor Paradigm.
Ayhan, I., Zanker, J. & Doyle, E. (Submitted) Measuring image distortions arising from age-related macular degeneration: An Iterative Amsler Grid (IAG).
Ayhan, I. & Ozbagci (Under Review) Action-induced changes in the perceived temporal features of visual events. Vision Research.
Gulhan, D., & Ayhan, I. (2019). Short-term global motion adaptation induces a compression in the subjective duration of dynamic visual events. Journal of Vision, 19(5), 19-19.
Ayhan, I., & Canbeyli, R. (2018) Zaman, zaman algısı ve biyolojik saat. In Biceroglu, H., Tonge, M., Seckin, M. Adiguzel, E., Gurvit, H. & Hanci, M. (Eds.) Fonksiyonun Cerrahi Anatomisi, İstanbul: Us Akademi. (in Turkish)
Bruno, A., Ayhan, I., & Johnston, A. (2015). Changes in apparent duration follow shifts in perceptual timing. Journal of Vision 15(2).
Ayhan, I., Revina, Y., Bruno, A., & Johnston, A. (2012). Duration judgments over multiple elements. Frontiers in Perception Science.3: 459.
Bruno, A., Ayhan, I., & Johnston, A. (2012). Effects of temporal features and order on the apparent duration of a visual stimulus. Frontiers in Perception Science. 3: 90.
Bruno, A., Ayhan, I.., & Johnston, A. (2011). Duration expansion at low luminance levels. Journal of Vision, 11(14): 13, 1-13.
Ayhan, I., Bruno, A., Nishida, S., & Johnston, A. (2011). The effect of luminance signal on the strength of adaptation-induced temporal compression. Journal of Vision, 11(7): 22, 1-17.
Johnston, A., Bruno, A., & Ayhan, I. (2011). Retinotopic selectivity of adaptation-based compression of event duration: Reply to Burr, Cicchini, Arrighi, and Morrone. Journal of Vision, 10(10):30b, 1–3.
Bruno, A., Ayhan, I., & Johnston, A. (2010). Retinotopic adaptation-based visual duration compression. Journal of Vision, 10(10):30, 1-18.
Ayhan, I., Bruno, A., Nishida, S., & Johnston, A. (2009). The spatial tuning of adaptation-based time compression. Journal of Vision, 9(11):2, 1-12.
Selected Presentations
Ayhan, I. (2019). Temporal Processes in the visual system (European Conference on Visual Perception)
Alashan, D., Canbeyli, R., & Ayhan, I. (2018). Multisensory duration reproduction in the supra-second range (European Conference on Visual Perception)
Ozbagci, D., & Ayhan, I. (2018). Action-Induced Compression in the perceived time of visual events (European Conference on Visual Perception)
Kurtcan, A.M., & Ayhan, I. (2017). A Motor Recalibration Influence On Color-motion Asynchrony (CMA) Effect Size In A Visuo Motor Paradigm (European Conference on Visual Perception)
Gulhan, D., & Ayhan, I. (2017). Short-term Adaptation Effects On Perceived Duration In Random Dot Kinematograms (rdks) And Drifting Gratings (European Conference on Visual Perception)
Alashan, D., Gulhan, D., & Ayhan, I. (2016). The effect of colour preference on the perception of emotionally ambiguous faces. (4th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science)
Senyazar, B., Salah, A. A., & Ayhan, I. (2016). The role of attention on the minimum presentation duration required for scene recognition. (European Conference on Visual Perception)
Gulhan, D. & Ayhan, I. (2016). The perceived duration of global motion in random dot kinematogram (RDK) displays. (Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting).
