publications

  • Tünçok, E., Chaudhari, N., Swedlow, N., Reeves, S., Lu, L., Daly, S., & Darcy, D.P. (2025). Predicting subjective audiovisual quality of experience with oculomotor responses and perceptual video quality. (in press in 17th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience)

  • Tünçok, E., Kiorpes, L., & Carrasco, M. (2025). Opposite asymmetry in visual perception of humans and macaques. Current Biology, 35(3), 681-687. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.024

  • Tünçok, E., Carrasco, M.* & Winawer, J.* (2024). Spatial attention alters visual cortical representation during target anticipation. bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2024.03.02.583127 (under review in Nature Communications)

  • Himmelberg, M.M., Tünçok, E., Gomez, J., Grill-Spector, K., Carrasco, M.* & Winawer, J.* (2023). Comparing visual cortex of children and adults reveals a late-stage change in how V1 samples the visual field. Nature Communications, 14(1), 1561. doi:10.1101/2022.07.22.501118

manuscripts in preparation

  • Tünçok, E., Carrasco, M. & Winawer, J. (in prep). Asymmetric modulation of visual cortex during spatial attention.

  • Subramanian, A., Tünçok, E., Kurzawski, J., Majaj, N.J., Pelli, D.G., Winawer, J. (in prep). A dissociation between noise response and object decoding along the human ventral stream.

invited talks

  • Carrasco, M., Kiorpes, L., Myers, C., Roberts, M., & Tünçok, E. (2024, August). Revealing developmental and cross-species asymmetries in visual performance. Presented at European Conference on Visual Perception, Aberdeen, Scotland.

  • Tünçok, E., Carrasco, M.,* & Winawer, J.* (2023, November). Spatial organization of top-down attentional signals in visual cortex. Presented at Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Nanosymposium on Spatial and Feature-based Attention, Washington D.C.

  • Tünçok, E., Carrasco, M.,* & Winawer, J.* (2023, May). A topographical investigation of top-down attentional modulation of visual cortical responses. Center for Brain Imaging Seminar, New York University, NY

conference presentations

  • Saad, R.^, Tünçok, E., Winawer, J.,* & Carrasco, M.* (2024, May). Spatial distribution of involuntary attention as a function of eccentricity and polar angle. Poster presented at NYU Undergraduate Research Conference. 

  • Tünçok, E., Kiorpes, L., & Carrasco, M. (2024, May). Motion discrimination around the visual field differs between adult humans and macaques. Poster presented at VSS 2024, St. Pete Beach, FL.

  • Tünçok, E., Carrasco, M.,* & Winawer, J.* (2023, May). Spatial attention alters BOLD activity and population receptive fields in visual cortex. Poster presented at VSS 2023, St. Pete Beach, FL. 

  • Tünçok, E., Himmelberg, M., Gomez, J., Grill-Spector, K., Carrasco, M.,* & Winawer, J.,* (2022, May). Polar angle asymmetries in V1 cortical magnification in children differs from adults. Poster presented at VSS 2022, St. Pete Beach, FL. 

  • Kaas, A., Serusi, G., Censor, N., G., Lange, G., Tünçok, E., & de Weerd, P. (2019, December). The effect of brief memory reactivations on tactile frequency discrimination learning. Poster accepted for presentation at 17th NVP Winter Conference on Brain & Cognition, Egmond aan Zee, NL.

  • Tünçok, E., Chudy, J., Peters, J., Zilverstand, A., Reithler, J., Goebel, R., & Sorger, B. (2019, December). Decoding the locus of covert visuospatial attention using multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data. Poster presented at Real-time Functional Imaging and Neurofeedback Conference, Maastricht, NL.

  • Tünçok, E., Hashim, I.C., Chudy, J., Censor, N., & de Weerd, P. (2019, June). Large visual skill gains without training. Poster presented at the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting, Lunteren, NL.

  • Boduroglu, A., Tekcan, A.İ., Mutlutürk, A., Ikizoğlu, A., Sözer, E.E., & Tünçok, E. (2018, May). Effects of sociopolitical identity on the structure and narratives of collective memory. Poster accepted for presentation at the 3rd International Meeting of Psychonomic Society, Amsterdam, NL.

  • Akan, M*., Albayrak, E*., Pranic, N. M*., Tamer, B*., Tünçok, E*., Uçar, N*., Çetin, A. E., Ecevitoğlu, A., Canbeyli, R., & Ünal, G. (2018, May). Differential affective and cognitive effects of environmental enrichment for aged rats. Poster presented at the 5th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science, Istanbul, TR.

  • Tünçok, E., Adıbelli, E., Aldan, P., & Soley, G. (2018, April). Adults’ social inferences based on language and gender. Poster presented at the Conference of New Directions in Social Cognition Research, Ankara, TR.

^ Trainee

* Equal contribution