Overview
Research Summary
My primary research interest is to understand neural mechanisms of social cognition and emotional processing in children, especially children with behavioural and emotional problems. My masters project was based on a coordinate based meta-analysis of embarrassment, a self-conscious emotion that requires social cognitive abilities such as mentalizing, social norm processing.
Undergraduate Education
Psychology, Koç University 2017; Law, Koç University, 2018
Postgraduate Education
MSc in Neuroimaging, Cardiff University, 2020
Research
Research interests
Research interests – Social cognition, emotion processing, fMRI, at-risk children
My primary research interest is to understand neural mechanisms of social cognition and emotional processing in children, especially children with behavioural and emotional problems. My masters project was based on a coordinate based meta-analysis of embarrassment, a self-conscious emotion that requires social cognitive abilities such as mentalizing, social norm processing.
Thesis
Identifying biomarkers of social cognition in an at-risk sample of young children
The current project intends to identify neural biomarkers of social cognition in terms of structural and functional patterns in the brain in an at-risk sample of young children. The detection of the differences in neural patterns in children whose difficulties either improved or deteriorated would be a predictor for future and/or lifelong mental health problems.
