Awards and Recognition

2009, Hüseyin Boyacı, TÜBA-GEBIP Young Investigator Science Fellowship (Turkish Academy of Science TÜBA)
2009, Hüseyin Boyacı, TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant: “Analysis of the influence of novel neurodevelopmental movement disorder mutations on the functional and structural organization of the visual and motor systems”, Co-PI. (With Emre Ozgen-PI)
2009, Hüseyin Boyacı, European Commission Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, “Assessing functional connectivity patterns within and among human visual cortical areas associated with contextual influences on visual perception”.
2011, Michelle Adams, Installation Grant, Young Investigator Programme (European Molecular Biology Organization)
2012, Katja Doerschner, Incentive Award in Social Sciences (TÜBİTAK)
2012, Katja Doerschner, TÜBA-GEBIP Young Investigator Science Fellowship (Turkish Academy of Science TÜBA)
2012, Hüseyin Boyacı, TÜBİTAK 1002 Grant: “Attentional modulation of surround suppression in visual perception”.
2013, Hüseyin Boyacı, TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant: “The effect of luminance- and context-dependent brightness on contrast perception”.
2014, Hüseyin Boyacı, Senior Fulbright Scholar Award for 2014-2015 academic year.
2014, Katja Doerschner, Marie Curie Initial Training Network Award (European Union FP7 People Program)
2015, Miri Besken, Psychonomic Society Select Speaker Award.
2016, Hüseyin Boyacı, TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant: “Cortical Correlates of the Contrast Perception Affected by Context-dependent Lightness”.
2017, Hüseyin Boyacı, European Union The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Innovative Training Network (MSCA-ITN/ETN) Grant, DyViTo: Dynamics in Vision and Touch – the look and feel of stuff. Collaborator PI in Bilkent University.
2017, Miri Besken, TÜBİTAK 3001: “İşitsel Ortamda Sunulan Haberlerin Algısal Akıcılığının Üstbilişsel Doğruluk Yargıları, Öğrenme Yargıları Ve Bellek Üzerindeki Etkileri”.
2017, Jedediah Allen, TÜBİTAK 3001: “How is Children’s Understanding of Deception Socialized”.
2018, Hüseyin Boyacı, TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant: “Behavioral and Neural Investigation of Predictive Processing in Visual Perception”.
2018, Hande Ilgaz, TÜBİTAK 3501 Grant: “The Longitudinal Relations between Mothers’ Language and Their Children’s Theory of Mind Abilities”.
2018, Ezgi Sakman, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Fulbright.
2019, Ezgi Sakman, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.
2019, Michelle Adams, TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant: “Environmental And Genetic Contributions To Inflammation And Its Associated Oxidative Stress During Aging, As Well As Potential Diet And Drug Therapies To Alter Their Course: Possible Regulators Of And Treatments For “Oxy-Inflammaging”.
2019, Huseyin Boyaci, TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant: “Neuronal Basis of Perceptual Learning”.
2019, Timothea Toulopoulou, TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant: “Developmental Trajectory of Working Memory Circuits in Adolescent and Young Adult Twins: Cortical maturation, genetic and environmental risk for schizophrenia, and the implications for the vulnerability to psychosis”.
2019, Burcu Aysen Urgen, TÜBİTAK 3501 Grant: “Behavioral and Neural Investigation of Perception of Biological Motion and Actions in Humans”.
2021, Hüseyin Boyacı, TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant: “Center-surround interaction in motion perception”.
2021, Burcu Aysen Urgen, TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant: “How do we perceive social robots? Inter-generational and inter-individual differences in mind attribution to social robots”.
2021, Michelle Adams, TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant: “Effects Of Varying Cholesterol Levels On Blood Brain Barrier, Cellular And Synaptic Integrity, As Well As Organelle Stress And Inflammation Levels In The Brain, And Possible Benefits Of Inhibition Of The PERK Arm Of The Unfolded Protein Response”.
2021, Ausaf Farooqui, TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant: “Rethinking How Control Is Instantiated By Fronto-Parietal Regions”.
2022, Ausaf Farooqui, TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant: “Deprived Sensory Cortices and Cognitive Control”.
2022, Selin Salman-Engin, TÜBİTAK 2219 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Studies Abroad.
2022, Michelle Adams, Ataxia Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS) Foundation, “Unraveling the role of glial cells in ARSACS”.
2023, Burcu Aysen Urgen, TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant: “Brain-behavior studies towards understanding real-world social cognition: The neural basis of visual perception of live actions and attention”.
2023, Burcu Aysen Urgen, TüSEB-B Grant: “Neural basis of decision-making processes in visual perception of human actions”.
2023, Burcu Aysen Urgen, TÜBİTAK 1002 Grant: “The neural basis of the effect of correlated color temperature of illumination on visual attention”.
2023, Zahide Pamir, TÜBİTAK 2232 Grant: “Behavioral and functional correlates of topographic reorganization in the primary visual cortex”.
2023, Hande Ilgaz, TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant: “The Relation between Mothers’ Epistemological Attitudes and Children’s Epistemologically Based Cognitive and Social-Cognitive Abilities“.