I am an Assistant Professor at UCSD at the Department of Cognitive Science, also affiliated with the Neurosciences Program, Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, and California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).

For information about our work, including research and training opportunities in the lab:
Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology Lab
Our Lab Blog

Education and Postdoctoral Positions

University Research Fellow, Optometry and Vision Science, City University, London, UK
Marie Curie Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK
PhD, Cognitive Science, UCSD, La Jolla, USA
MSc, Computer Science, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
BSc, Mathematics, METU, Ankara, Turkey
My NeuroTree

Courses

COGS 160 (260): Matlab for Experimental Research (MatFun) -- Offered again Fall 2011
COGS 160: Neurodynamics of Action Perception
COGS 172: Brain Disorders and Cognition --Offered again Winter 2012
COGS 260: Neuropsychology
COGS 1: Introduction to Cognitive Science

Selected Publications

For a more complete list: My CV

Saygin, A.P., Chaminade, T., Ishiguro, H., Driver, J. & Frith, C. (2011) The thing that should not be: Predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience.PDF

Gilaie-Dotan, S., Bentin, S., Harel, A., Rees, G. & Saygin, A.P. (2011) Normal form from biological motion despite impaired ventral stream function. Neuropsychologia. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21237181

Saygin, A.P. (in press). A computational analysis of interaction patterns in the acquisition of Turkish. Research on Language and Computation. PDF

De-Wit, L., Lefevre, C., Kentridge, R., Rees, G. & Saygin, A.P. (2011) Investigating the status of biological stimuli as objects of attention in multiple object tracking. Plos ONE.6(3):e16232.

Leech, R. & Saygin, A.P. (2011). Distributed processing of speech and environmental sounds in human temporal cortex. Brain and Language, 116(2):83-90. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21167584

Saygin, A.P., Cook, J., Blakemore, S-J. (2010) Unaffected perceptual thresholds for biological and non-biological form-from-motion perception in Autism Spectrum Conditions. PLoS ONE, 5(10): e13491. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013491

Saygin, A.P., McCullough, S. Alac, M & Emmorey, K. (2010) Modulation of BOLD response in motion sensitive lateral temporal cortex by real and fictive motion sentences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(11), 2480-90. PDF

Saygin, A.P., Leech, R., & Dick, F. (2010) Nonverbal auditory agnosia with lesion to Wernicke’s area. Neuropsychologia, 48: 107-113. PDF

Cook, J., Saygin, A.P., Swain, R., & Blakemore, S.J. (2009) Reduced sensitivity to minimum-jerk biological motion in autism spectrum conditions. Neuropsychologia, 47(14): 3275-8.

Saygin, A.P. & Sereno, M.I. (2008) Retinotopy and attention in human occipital, temporal, parietal and frontal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 18(9): 2158-68. PDF

Saygin, A.P., Driver, J., de Sa, V.R. (2008) In the footsteps of biological motion and multisensory perception: Judgments of audio-visual temporal relations are enhanced for upright walkers. Psychological Science, 19(5): 469-75. PDF

Saygin, A.P. (2007) Superior temporal and premotor brain areas necessary for biological motion perception. Brain, 130: 2452-2461. PDF

Dick, F., Saygin, A.P., Galati, G., Pitzalis, S., Bentrovato, S., et al. (2007) What is involved and what is necessary for complex linguistic and non-linguistic auditory processing: evidence from fMRI and lesion data. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(5): 799-816. PDF

Borovsky, A., Saygin, A.P., Dronkers, N., Bates. E. (2007) Lesion correlates of conversational speech production deficits. Neuropsychologia, 45(11): 2525-33.

Hagler Jr, D.J., Saygin, A.P., & Sereno, M.I. (2006) Smoothing and cluster thresholding for cortical surface-based group analysis of fMRI data. Neuroimage, 33: 1093-1103. PDF

Saygin, A.P., Dick, F. & Bates, E. (2005) An online task for contrasting auditory processing in the verbal and nonverbal domains and norms for younger and older adults. Behavior Research Methods, 37(1): 99-110. PDF

Saygin, A.P., Wilson, S.M., Hagler Jr., D.J., Bates, E., & Sereno, M.I. (2004) Point-light biological motion perception activates human premotor cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 24: 6181 - 6188. PDF

Wilson, S.M., Saygin, A.P., Sereno, M.I., & Iacoboni, M. (2004) Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech production. Nature Neuroscience, 7: 701 - 702. PDF

Saygin, A.P., Wilson, S.M. Dronkers, N. & Bates, E. (2004) Action comprehension in aphasia: Linguistic and non-linguistic deficits and their lesion correlates. Neuropsychologia, 42: 1788-1804. PDF

Wilson, S.M. & Saygin, A.P. (2004) Grammaticality judgment in aphasia: Deficits are not specific to syntactic structures, aphasic syndromes or lesion sites. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16 (2): 238-52. PDF

Bates, E., Wilson, S.M., Saygin, A.P., Dick, F., Sereno, M.I., Knight, R., Dronkers, N. (2003) Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping. Nature Neuroscience, 6(5), 448-450. PDF

Saygin, A.P., Dick, F., Wilson, S.M., Dronkers, N.F. & Bates, E. (2003) Neural resources for processing language and environmental sounds: Evidence from aphasia. Brain, 126(4): 928-945. PDF

Saygin, A.P. & Cicekli, I. (2002) Pragmatics in human-computer conversation. Journal of Pragmatics, 34(3): 227-258. PDF

Saygin, A.P., Cicekli, I., & Akman, V. (2000) Turing Test: 50 years later. Minds and Machines, 10(4): 463-518. PDF.