HANDE SUNGUR

Researcher-in-training
 

Biography:

 

I received my B.A in Psychology at Koc University, Istanbul, in 2007. After graduation, I obtained my M.A  in Cognitive Psychology at Bogazici University, Istanbul, in 2010. An area I am interested in is the video-game research. During my M.A, I studied how expertise on action video games affects the visual system. In addition to previously shown visuo-attentional improvements for video-game players, for the first time we were able to show improvements with the visual representation of objects.

My PhD study, which is going to start in September 2010, will combine cognitive psychology with more social and possibly neuroscience research. I will be working with Prof. Gün Semin in the area of embodied cognition. A possible research topic for me would be investigating how distinctive hedonically charged physical features of environmental contexts (temperature, touch, smell) influence judgments about persons, and objects and the processes mediating this relationship. Additionally, investigating the possible role language plays in the relationship between these physical features and judgments.

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