Education and Professional Profile

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Assistant Professor, Sabancı University, Istanbul                                                                                           since 2020

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Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University                                                                                   2017-2019          Advisor: Dr.Mariam Aly

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Chicago                                                                                     2015-2017

          Advisors: Dr. Edward Awh and Dr. Edward K. Vogel

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Visiting Research Scholar, Duke University                                                                                                              2015

         Advisor: Dr. Tobias Egner

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Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, VU University Amsterdam                                                                                 2011-2015          Advisors: Dr. Martijn Meeter and Dr. Chris Olivers

 

Research Assistant & Lab Manager, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey                                                   2009-2011

          Advisor: Dr. Aysecan Boduroglu - Cognitive Processes Lab

 

M.Sc., Cognitive Psychology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey                                                              2008-2011

          Advisor: Dr. Aysecan Boduroglu

 

B.A., Physics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey                                                                                       2003-2008

 

 

Publications

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Günseli, E., Aly, M. (2020). Preparation for upcoming attentional states in the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. eLife

 

Tarder-Stoll, H., Jayakumar, M., Dimsdale-Zucker, H. R., Gunseli, E., & Aly, M. (2020). Dynamic internal states shape memory retrieval. Neuropsychologia, 138

 

Günseli, E., Fahrenfort, J., van Moorselaar, D, Daoultzis, K., Meeter, M., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2019). EEG dynamics reveal a dissociation between selective attention and storage in working memory. Scientific Reports.

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Hakim, N., Adam, K. C. S., Gunseli, E., Awh, E., Vogel, E. K. (2019). Dissecting the neural focus of attention reveals distinct processes for spatial attention and object-based storage in visual working memory. Psychological Science

 

van Driel, J., Gunseli, E., Meeter, M., & Olivers, C. N. (2017). Local and interregional alpha EEG dynamics dissociate between memory for search and memory for recognition. NeuroImage, 149, 114-128.

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Gunseli, E., Meeter, M., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2016). Task-Irrelevant Memories Rapidly Gain Attentional Control with Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

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Gunseli, E., van Moorselaar, D., Meeter, M., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2015). The reliability of retro-cues determines the fate of non-cued visual working memory representations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22(5), 1334-1341.

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van Moorselaar, D., Gunseli, E., Theeuwes, J., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2015). The time course of protecting a visual memory representation from perceptual interference. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 1053.

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Gunseli, E., Meeter, M., & Olivers, C. N. L. (2014). Is a search template an ordinary working memory? Comparing electrophysiological markers of working memory maintenance for visual search and recognition. Neuropsychologia,60, 29-38.

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Gunseli, E., Olivers, C. N. L., & Meeter, M. (2014). Effects of search difficulty on the selection, maintenance, and learning of attentional templates. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 26, 2042-2054.

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Recent Conference Presentations and Abstracts, and Invited Colloquia

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Günseli, E. (2020, November). Dissociating spatial attention and object storage in visual working memory. Inivited talk at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

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Günseli, E., Aly, M. (2019, May). Memory-based attentional states are established by the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. Talk at Manhattan Area Memory Meeting, Princeton, NJ, USA

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Günseli, E., Aly, M. (2019, May). Memory-based attentional states are established by the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. Poster at the Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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Günseli, E. (2019, April). Interactions between memory and attention. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.

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Gunseli, E., Aly, M. (2019, April). Memory-based attentional states are established by the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. Talk at Columbia University Colloquium, New York, NY, USA

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Gunseli, E., Aly, M. (2019, March). Switching between attention and memory in the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex. Poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Günseli, E. (2019, January). How attention is guided by, and directed to, memory. Sabancı University, Turkey.

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Günseli, E. (2019, January). How attention is guided by, and directed to, memory. Bilkent University, Turkey.

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Gunseli, E., Foster, J., Sutterer D., Vogel, E., Awh, E. (2016, November). Alpha-Band Activity Tracks Updates to the Content of Spatial Working Memory. Talk presented at Object Perception Attention Memory, Boston, MA, USA.

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Dowd, E. W., Gunseli, E., Meeter, M., Olivers, C. N., Egner, T. (2016, May). Changes in task-irrelevant context invoke updating of task-relevant representations in working memory. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete, FL, USA.

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Grants and Fellowships

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Scientific and Technological Research Projects Support Program by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2022. (720.000 TL; $49.114 at the time of application)

 

Sabancı University President's Research Fund, 2021 (300.000 TL; $31,450 at the time of application)

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Rapid Funding Grant, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2021 (50.000 TL; $5,800 at the time of acceptance)

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Integration Projects Support, Sabancı University, 2020 (100.000 TL; $13,550.14 at the time of acceptance)

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International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2019. (2.596.685 TL; $467,029 at the time of acceptance)

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VU University, Amsterdam, Faculty of Psychology and Education Talent Fund – Funding for International visits of talented PhD students and postdocs with the aim of carrying out research abroad, 2015. (€5.000)

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Bogazici University Foundation – Conference Participation Fellowship, 2010 for Annual Workshop of Object Perception, Attention and Memory. St. Louis.

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Bogazici University Faculty of Arts and Sciences – Poster/Presentation Conference Participation Fellowship, 2010 for Annual Workshop of Object Perception, Attention and Memory. St. Louis.

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Prime Minister’s Grant*, 2003-2008.

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Thrust and Dormitories Institution Grant*, 2003-2008.

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* Prime Minister’s Grant and Thrust and Dormitories Institution Grant are awarded to the students, who took place in top 5-10 percent at university entrance exam in Turkey, during undergraduate education

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