Yearly Archives: 2026

Dr. Algın and his research collaborators have published a study titled ‘’Primary and nonprimary auditory cortex connectivity with brain regions involved in cognitive and emotional processing: in mouse and human’’ in the internationally respected journal Hearing Research.

This article, based on recent research by Prof. Dr. Oktay Algın and his colleagues, identifies the connections between the auditory cortex and brain regions involved in cognitive and emotional processing. The study employs retrograde fluoro-gold (FG) tracers in mice and 3-tesla high-resolution diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in human adults. While the neural mechanisms underlying acoustic […]

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The Neurobiological Mechanisms Underlying Stress Susceptibility

Emine Eren Koçak Hacettepe University Date/Time: Thursday, 22 January 2026, 16:30 am Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106)   Abstract: One of the most fundamental questions in psychiatry is why certain individuals develop mental disorders after exposure to stressors while others don’t. This talk explores the neurobiological basis of stress susceptibility. Dendritic […]

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Human-Robot Interaction as Distributed Cognition: Joint Action, Embodiment, and Situated Interaction

Bilge Mutlu University of Wisconsin–Madison Date/Time: Tuesday, 6 January 2026, 11:00 am Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106)   Abstract: Human-robot interaction is often framed in terms of interfaces, autonomy, or task performance. In this talk, I argue that HRI is more productively understood as the study of distributed cognitive systems where […]

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