About
Postdoc at Neurodynamics and Neural Decoding Group at Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School.
I am a linguist specializing in the cognitive neuroscience of language. My research program is focused on understanding the neural correlates of phonological computations that give rise to the complexities underlying human languages. My aim is to integrate these phonological computations into the cognitive neuroscience of language which links abstract mathematical patterns to real-time theories of word parsing and ultimately to neural computations. To this end, my research uses behavioral and neural measures (EEG/ERPs, MEG, and MRI (Ecog loading)) to test the predictions of phonological computations.
Education
| 2019 – Present | Postdoc at Neurodynamics and Neural Decoding Group Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School |
| 2014 – 2019 | Ph.D. in Linguistics. University of Delaware |
| 2016 | M.A. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science. University of Delaware |
| 2014 | M.Sc. in Cognitive Sciences. Middle East Technical University |
| 2011 | B.A. in Linguistics. Hacettepe University |
News
- I will be giving a talk at the Psychonomic Society’s 61st Annual Meeting, happening online November 19-21, 2020. Link of the talk will be shared, TBD.
- Our paper titled “Unlearnable Phonotactics” is live!
- I will be presenting two posters at the SNL 2020 Annual Meeting which will be held online from October 21 – 24, 2020. Here are links:
- I was awarded one of two postdoc merit awards by SNL for our abstract titled “Are two lexica better than one? Testing computational hypotheses with deep convolutional models”
- I gave a talk titled “Locality matters: Neural responses show local, but not piecewise, learning” at PhonolEEGy: Electrophysiology and Phonological Theory conference which was held online. Here is the link for the ppt presentation.
- I have presented a poster titled “The neural bases of phonological acceptability judgements” at the 27th Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, CNS 2020, which was held online. Here is the link for the poster and short video presentation:
- I have presented a poster titled “Computational Complexity in Phonotactics Modulates Brain Response Evidence from EEG” at the 7th Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) which was held on October 11-13, 2019 in Stony Brook, NY, USA. Here is the link for the pdf poster.
- I was awarded the Society of Psychophysiology Research (SPR) RESEARCH TRAINING GRANT