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46 publications in 2026
A recurrent neuronal model for the effect of predictions on sensory processes (opens in a new tab)Buse Merve Ürgen, Hilal İrem Baştürk, Hüseyin BoyacıScientific Reports, 2026Understanding Older Adults’ And Caretakers’ Attitudes Toward Social Robots Using Natural Language Processing and Thematic Analysis (opens in a new tab)Begüm Çonka, Burcu Aysen Urgen, Yasemin AfacanInternational Journal of Social Robotics, 2026Neural correlates of phi and reverse-phi motion aftereffects: Temporal dynamics of ON–OFF pathway interactions (opens in a new tab)Sibel Akyüz, Hulusi Kafalıgönül, Andrea PavanCortex, 2026Early Aneurysm Occlusion Outcomes After Endovascular Treatment: A Descriptive Single-Center Cohort Evaluation (opens in a new tab)Yasar Ünsal, Kadir Çetinkaya, Mehmet Özgür Özateş, Oktay Gürcan, Oktay Algın, Gıyas AyberkNeurology International, 2026Unsupervised Segmentation of Extraventricular Brain Regions in PC-MRI Using CSF Flow Dynamics (opens in a new tab)Ayşe Keleş, Gürkan Sinan Yaşar, Oktay Algın, Ausaf Ahmed Farooqui, Pınar ÖzışıkJournal of the Institute of Science and Technology, 2026A cumulative polyeXposure score to predict early adolescent substance use based on environmental exposures (opens in a new tab)Faith Adams, Sarah Abdelaziz, Zihan Zhang, Jonathan Ahern, Yixuan He, Timothea Toulopoulou, Chun Chieh Fan, Iliyan Ivanov, Sophia Frangou, Wesley Kurt Thompson, et al.Communications Medicine, 2026The Anatomical Connections of Nucleus Accumbens with Brainstem and Cerebellum in the Rat and Human Subjects (opens in a new tab)Safiye Çavdar, Damlasu Altınöz, Mazhar Özkan, Elif Erkan, Aytaç Güzel, Yasin Celal Güneş, Oktay AlgınThe Cerebellum, 2026Physics-Driven Autoregressive State Space Models for Medical Image Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)Bilal Kabaş, Fuat Arslan, Valiyeh Ansarian Nezhad, Kader K. Oguz, Şaban Öztürk, Emine Ülkü Sarıtaş, Tolga ÇukurIEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2026Predictive processing in visual perception of actions: The modulation of short-term priors by the long-term prior (opens in a new tab)Gizem Özen, Burcu Aysen UrgenJournal of Vision, 2026Naturalistic stimulus reconstruction from fMRI: A primer in the Natural Scenes Dataset (opens in a new tab)Umur Yıldız, Burcu Aysen UrgenAperture Neuro, 2026CORRELATES OF PSYCHOTIC LIKE EXPERIENCES AMONG YOUNG ADULTS DURING THE COVID19 PANDEMIC ACROSS FOUR COUNTRIES: A DATA MINING STUDY (opens in a new tab)Helin Yılmaz Kafalı, İnanç Kabasakal, Dmytro Martsenkovskyi, Sheikh Shoib, Irfan Ullah, Joan Soler‐Vidal, Oluseun Peter Ogunnubi, Paola Fuentes Claramonte, Gamze Erzın, Ozge kilic, et al.Acta Medica Nicomedia, 2026Do non-language regions become language regions? The case of deprived sensory cortices (opens in a new tab)Ayşe Betül Varol, Tamer Gezici, Şehmus Kurt, Yasemin Güçlütürk, Mohini Verma, Ausaf Ahmed FarooquiBrain, 2026Biological motion is perceived as faster with shorter auditory time intervals (opens in a new tab)Sudenur Özkan, Seyma Koc Yilmaz, Hulusi KafalıgönülScientific Reports, 2026Fractional Fourier transform based visibility graphs (opens in a new tab)Ecem Şimşek, Haldun M. Özaktaş, Aykut KoçDigital Signal Processing, 2026SAR-Efficient Sub-Volume Imaging Using Nonlinear Gradient Magnetic Fields (opens in a new tab)Emre Kopanoğlu, Ergin Atalar, Robert Todd ConstableJournal of Imaging, 2026The Cribriform Plate: A Multifaceted Neuroimmune Hub in CNS Health and Disease (opens in a new tab)Kadir Çetinkaya, Oktay AlgınMedicina, 2026MicroKAN: Mapping human brain microstructure using diffusion MRI and adaptive nonlinear modeling (opens in a new tab)Yifei Chen, Zihan Li, Yuanhan Wang, Yijin Li, Jialan Zheng, Hongjia Yang, Mingxuan Liu, Tolga Çukur, Qiuyun Fan, Ziyu Li, et al.NeuroImage, 2026A database of digital line drawıngs that depict expected and unexpected action-place relationships (opens in a new tab)Sabiha Tezcan Aydemir, Seray Tezcan Umul, Burcu Aysen UrgenVision Research, 2026When Control Loses Control: Disordered Activation of Frontoparietal Networks in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (opens in a new tab)Tamer Gezici, İlknur Yaren Pala, Berfin Gürcan, Zaur Guliyev, Aslı Akyol Gürses, Burak Karaaslan, İrem Yıldırım, Tuğba Hırfanoğlu, Ausaf Ahmed Farooqui2026The Demands of Beginning of Extended Tasks are Categorically Different from Control Demands During Their Subsequent Execution (opens in a new tab)Elif Oymagil, Tamer Gezici, Adem Yazıcı, Berhan Faruk Akgür, İpek Çiftçi, Ausaf Ahmed Farooqui2026How Causal Are Language-Related fMRI Activations? Evidence from Awake Direct Electrocortical Stimulation (DES) (opens in a new tab)Berfin Gürcan, Tamer Gezici, Özge Şengil, Burak Karaaslan, Emrah Çeltikçi, Murat Zinnuroğlu, Güzide Atalık, Ausaf Ahmed Farooqui2026Widespread Network Functional Changes Including Sensory Cortices in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (opens in a new tab)İlknur Yaren Pala, Tamer Gezici, Berfin Gürcan, Zaur Guliyev, Aslı Akyol Gürses, Burak Karaaslan, İrem Yıldırım, Tuğba Hırfanoğlu, Ausaf Ahmed Farooqui2026Succesive Task Steps Elicit Orthogonal Activity Patterns in Widespread Brain Regions (opens in a new tab)İrem Giray, Gulsum Ozge Sengil, Ausaf Ahmed Farooqui2026Widespread Network Functional Changes Including Sensory Cortices in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (opens in a new tab)İlknur Yaren Pala, Tamer Gezici, Berfin Gürcan, Tamer Gezici, Berfin Gürcan, Zaur Guliyev, Aslı Akyol Gürses, Burak Karaaslan, İrem Yıldırım, Tuğba Hırfanoğlu, et al.2026What Gets Decoded in Frontoparietal Cortices? (opens in a new tab)Adem Yazıcı, Gulsum Ozge Sengil, Ausaf Ahmed Farooqui2026Changes in the Blind and the Deaf are Not Limited to Sensory Cortices (opens in a new tab)Ayşe Betül Varol, Tamer Gezici, Şehmus Kurt, Yasemin Güçlütürk, Mohini Verma, Ausaf Ahmed Farooqui2026Direction selectivity in naturalistic action observation: distributed representations across the action observation network (opens in a new tab)Zelal Eltas, Murat Batu Tunca, Burcu Aysen UrgenBrain Structure and Function, 2026Does the Visual Word Form Area Exist for a Non-Latin Script? (opens in a new tab)Ahmet Cihan Uzun, Adem Yazıcı, Ausaf Ahmed Farooqui, Sami Boudelaa2026Nimodipine and enoxaparin improve neurological outcomes and reduce cerebral edema by modulating glymphatic perivascular spaces in a rabbit model of subarachnoid hemorrhage (opens in a new tab)Kadir Çetinkaya, Yasar Ünsal, Mehmet Özgür Özateş, Oktay Algın, Gıyas AyberkJournal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2026Integrated Image Enhancement and Radiomic Analysis for Ultra-High-Field 7T Time-of-Flight MR Angiography (opens in a new tab)Hussain A. Jaber, İlyas Çankaya, Oktay AlgınApplied Sciences, 2026362. Mapping Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia Onto the Triple Network Across Adolescent Development: A Longitudinal Study (opens in a new tab)Kader Kubat, Didenur Şahin-Çevik, Seda Arslan, Evangelos Vassos, Timothea ToulopoulouBiological Psychiatry, 2026Selection of appropriate reference genes in Apoe-/- mouse brain (opens in a new tab)N. Mengi, Büşranur Şeker, Fulya Kızıldağ, Tülin Yanık, Michelle M. AdamsIBRO Neuroscience Reports, 2026Perceiving material qualities from moving contours (opens in a new tab)Amna Malik, Ying Yu, Hüseyin Boyacı, Katja DoerschnerScientific Reports, 2026Meta-Entity Driven Triplet Mining for Aligning Medical Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)Melih Yilmaz, Şaban Öztürk, Muti Kara, M. Talat Yavuz, Ekim Gümeler, Aykut Koç, Tolga ÇukurIEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2026Pediatric bone age assessment with AI models based on modified Tanner-Whitehouse (opens in a new tab)Mohammed Radeaf, Hadeel K. Aljobouri, Noor K.N. Al-Waely, Algin OktayAl-Qadisiyah Journal for Engineering Sciences, 2026Domain-general demands that deactivate multiple-demand regions (opens in a new tab)Tamer Gezici, Elif Oymagil, Adem Yazıcı, Berhan Faruk Akgür, İpek Çiftçi, Ausaf Ahmed FarooquiCerebral Cortex, 2026Semi-supervision for clinical contrast-weighted image synthesis from magnetic resonance fingerprinting (opens in a new tab)Mahmut Yurt, Cagan Alkan, Xiaozhi Cao, Congyu Liao, Zihan Zhou, Tolga Çukur, Ali Syed, John M. Pauly, Shreyas S. Vasanawala, Kawin SetsompopMagnetic Resonance Materials in Physics Biology and Medicine, 2026Learning Fourier-Constrained Diffusion Bridges for MRI Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)M. Usama Mirza, Onat Dalmaz, Hasan A. Bedel, Gokberk Elmas, Yılmaz Korkmaz, Alper Güngör, Salman Ul Hassan Dar, Kader K. Oguz, Tolga ÇukurIEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2026Formal thought disorder and familial risk in first-episode psychosis: A study of cortical thickness and neuroimaging-transcriptomic association analysis (opens in a new tab)Tuğçe Çabuk, Yuanchao Zhang, Lena K. Palaniyappan, Didenur Şahin-Çevik, Hanife Avcı, Işık Batuhan Çakmak, Helin Yılmaz Kafalı, Bedirhan Şenol, Kader Karlı Oğuz, Timothea ToulopoulouPsychiatry Research Neuroimaging, 2026HR-ACT (Human–Robot Action) Database: Communicative and noncommunicative action videos featuring a human and a humanoid robot (opens in a new tab)Tuğçe Nur Pekçetin, Gaye Aşkın, Şeyda Evsen, Tuvana Dilan Karaduman, Badel Barinal, Jana Tunç, Cengiz Acartürk, Burcu Aysen UrgenBehavior Research Methods, 2026Primary and nonprimary auditory cortex connectivity with brain regions involved in cognitive and emotional processing: in mouse and human (opens in a new tab)Büşra Köse, Mazhar Özkan, Yasin Celal Güneş, Oktay Algın, Safiye ÇavdarHearing Research, 2026EM Simulation Model of a Clinically‐Used RF Head Coil at 7 T (opens in a new tab)Dora Özkara, Iris Yazici, Elnaz Mahmoudi Mahmoudalilou, Sascha Brunheim, Lance J. DelaBarre, Tony Stöcker, Yiğitcan Eryaman, Ergin AtalarMagnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2026scHyperLink: Revealing Cell-Type-Specific Gene Regulation With Hypergraph Neural Networks (opens in a new tab)Emre Kulkul, Tolga Çukur, Aykut KoçIEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2026I2I-Mamba: Multi-modal medical image synthesis via selective state space modeling (opens in a new tab)Ömer F. Atlı, Bilal Kabaş, Fuat Arslan, Arda C. Demirtas, Mahmut Yurt, Onat Dalmaz, Tolga ÇukurIEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2026Graph Neural Networks Improve Quantized Transformers by Incorporating Global Relationships (opens in a new tab)Cihan Eralp Kumbasar, Haldun M. Özaktaş, Aykut KoçIEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, 2026The role of altered decision dynamics and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to amygdala causal circuitry in the aberrant efficacy of emotion suppression in subthreshold depression (opens in a new tab)Lijing Niu, Timothea Toulopoulou, Xiaoqi Song, Qian Li, Haowei Dai, Keyin Chen, Jiayuan Zhang, Xi Chen, Zini Chen, Xingqin Wang, et al.Psychological Medicine, 2026
