Title: Keeping in Mind What’s Worth Keeping: How the Mind Reactivates What Matters Speaker: Eren Günseli (Sabancı University) Time: December 11, 2025, 16:30 Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract: Working memory is often described as a mental workspace that actively keeps task-relevant information online. Yet, sustaining such activation is metabolically costly and […]

Title: Neural Mechanisms of Multisensory Behavioral Control Speaker: İsmail Uyanık (Hacettepe University) Time: November 6, 2025, 16:30 Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract: The central nervous system (CNS) processes sensory information obtained through various sensory structures in the body. These include signals with a wide variety of spatiotemporal features, such as different […]

Title: Using Language Models to Explore Semantic Representation in the Brain Speaker: Emin Celik Time: 9 October 2025,15:30 Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract:  Can language models help us make sense of how our brains process language when we read or listen? In this talk, I will tell you about how we […]

Below is a list of seminars we will be hosting during the 2025 Spring Semester. All are cordially invited. Contact our administrative staff for the Zoom links. POSTPONED: 15 May, 16:30 Yildiray Yildiz (in person)

Bilkent University will have an Open House on 25 March 2023 to introduce the graduate programs to prospective students. The Neuroscience program will have a session, too. See the program website: http://gradopenhouse.bilkent.edu.tr/index.html Register for the event from here: https://stars.bilkent.edu.tr/mfbe-openhouse/

25 October 2022, 17:00, Prof. Hasan Ayaz, Drexel University “Neuroergonomics: Towards Ubiquitous and Continuous Measurement of Brain Function during Everyday Life” 23 December 2022, 17:30, Dr. Can Barış Top, ASELSAN Research Center, Sensors and Imaging Technologies “Towards Human Sized Magnetic Particle Imaging”