Research Interests
Cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, neuroimaging, visual perception, attention, multisensory integration, biological motion, social neuroscience, language comprehension, human-machine interaction, social robotics.
Featured Publications
Saygin, A.P., Chaminade, T., Ishiguro, H., Driver, J. & Frith, C. (2012) The thing that should not be: Predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, 7(4):413-22.
Selected Publications
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), pp. 2480-90.
Saygin, A.P., Leech, R., & Dick, F. (2010). Nonverbal auditory agnosia with lesion to Wernicke’s area. Neuropsychologia, 48, 107-113.
Tibber, M., Saygin, A.P., Grant, S., Melmoth, D., Rees, G., & Morgan, M.J. (2010). The neural correlates of visuospatial perceptual and oculomotor extrapolation. PLoS One. 2010 Mar 15;5(3):e9664.
Saygin, A.P., Chaminade, T., Ishiguro, H. (2010) The Perception of Humans and Robots: Uncanny Hills in Parietal Cortex. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2716-2720). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
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. 18;5(10):e13491.
Leech, R. & Saygin, A.P. (2011). Distributed processing and cortical specialization for speech and environmental sounds in human temporal cortex. Brain and Language, 116(2):83-90.
Saygin, A.P. (2011). A computational analysis of interaction patterns in the acquisition of Turkish. Research on Language and Computation. In press.
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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016232
Saygin, A.P. (2012). Biological motion perception and the brain: Neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies. In K. Johnson & M. Shiffrar (Eds.) Visual Perception of the Human Body in Motion: Findings, Theory, and Practice, Oxford series in Visual Cognition, Oxford University Press. In press.
Gilaie-Dotan, S., Bentin, S., Harel, A., Rees, G. & Saygin, A.P. (2011) Normal form from biological motion despite impaired ventral stream function. Neuropsychologia.
van Kemenade, B.M., Muggleton, N., Walsh, V., Saygin, A.P. (2012) The Effects of TMS over STS and Premotor Cortex on the Perception of Biological Motion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 24(4): 896–904.
Saygin, A.P. & Stadler. W. (2012) The role of visual appearance in action prediction. Psychological Research. In Press.
Urgen, B.A., Plank, M., Ishiguro, H., Poizner, H., Saygin, A.P. (2012). Temporal Dynamics of Action Perception: The Role of Biological Appearance and Motion Kinematics. 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan.
