Buse Merve Ürgen

Buse Merve Ürgen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, TED University. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from Bilkent University, Turkey in 2021. She did her BA in Psychology at Bilkent University (2011), and MS in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, UK (2012). Following her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center and National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM). Her primary research interest is to understand how top-down mechanisms such as expectation and attention affect visual perception and decision-making processes using psychophysics, computational modeling and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Research Interests

visual perception, decision-making, expectation, attention, psychophysics, computational modeling, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Education

• PhD in Neuroscience, Bilkent University, Turkey (Sep 2014 - Jan 2021)
• MS in Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, United Kingdom (Sep 2011 - Sep 2012)
• BA in Psychology, Bilkent University, Turkey (Sep 2006 - Jun 2011)

Publications

Reichenbach, A., Urgen, B.M., Apostolakis, S., Michlin, L., & Diedrichsen, J. (2022). Factors governing the assignment of visual consequence to the corresponding action. Journal of Neurophysiology. URL: https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00450.2021

Urgen, B.M., Boyaci, H. (2021). Unmet expectations delay sensory processes. Vision Research, 181, 1-9. URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2020.12.004 (also in bioRxiv 2019, https://doi.org/10.1101/545244)

Demirayak, P., Karli Oguz, K., Ustun, F.S., Urgen, B.M., Topac, Y., Gilani, I., Kansu, T., Saygi, S., Özçelik, T., Boyaci, H., Doerschner, K. (2021). Cortical connectivity in the face of congenital structural changes – a case of homozygous LAMC3 mutation. Brain and Behavior, 1– 18. URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2241

Urgen, B.M., Topac, Y., Ustun, F.S., Demirayak, P., Oguz, K.K., Kansu, T., Saygi, S., Ozcelik, T., Boyaci, H., Doerschner, K. (2019). Homozygous LAMC3 mutation links to structural and functional changes in visual attention networks, NeuroImage, 190, 242-253. URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.03.077