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Burcu Aysen Urgen

Bilkent University

Position

Assistant Professor/Lecturer

Talk Topics: Keywords and/or titles (recommended)

biological motion perception, action perception, neuroimaging, fMRI, EEG, pattern analysis

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bilkent.edu.tr

Burcu Ayşen Ürgen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, Bilkent University. She received her PhD in Cognitive Science from University of California, San Diego (USA) in 2015. Prior to her PhD, she did her BS in Computer Engineering at Bilkent University, and MS in Cognitive Science at Middle East Technical University. Following her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma (Italy), with Professor Guy A. Orban. Dr. Ürgen’s primary research area is human visual perception with a focus on biological motion and action perception. In addition to behavioral methods, she uses a wide range of invasive and non-invasive neuroimaging techniques including fMRI, EEG, and intracranial recordings to study the neural basis of visual perception. Her research commonly utilizes state-of-the-art computational techniques including machine learning, computer vision, and effective connectivity.