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Alper
Açık

Assistant Professor - Psychology Department Chair, Cognitive Psychology


Doctorate

Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University, Germany, 2015

Master's

Cognitive Science, Osnabruck University, 2006

Bachelor's

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Psikoloji, 2003.

High School

Istanbul Erkek Lisesi, 2000



Research Areas

Visual perception, attention, natural image statistics, eye movements, embodied cognition


Biography

After receiving his B.A. Degree in Psychology from Bogazici University in 2003, Alper Açık moved to Germany and completed an M.Sc. Degree in Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabruck. At the same institute, he worked on his PhD in Cognitive Science and delivered lectures on cognitive psychology and neuroscience between 2006 and 2011. He obtained his PhD in 2015. Since 2009 he is involved in the organization of popular scientific seminars on various topics. His areas of expertise, research and interest consist of visual attention, eye movements, natural image statistics, perceptual mechanisms and embodied cognition.