Publications

Journal Articles

  • Pavan, A., Yilmaz, S.K., Kafaligonul, H., Föcker, J., Greenlee, M.W. (in progress). Action video game players learn perceptual templates of motion direction faster but do not exhibit higher precision of visual short-term memory.
  • Yilmaz, S.K., Kafaligonul, H. (in progress). Attentional demands in the visual field alter audiovisual interactions in the temporal domain.
  • Akdogan, I., Ogmen, H., Kafaligonul, H. (in progress). The phase coherence of low-frequency brain oscillations predict changes in perceived visibility.
  • Catak, E.N., Ogmen, H., Kafaligonul, H. (in progress). Attentional load modulates neural processing of target visibility in metacontrast masking.
  • Karaduman, A., Karoglu-Eravsar, E.T., Adams, M.M., Kafaligonul, H. (under review). Passive exposure to visual motion leads to short-term changes in the optomotor response of aging zebrafish. Behavioural Brain Research.
  • Karoglu-Eravsar E.T., Tuz-Sasik M.U., Karaduman A., Keskus A.G., Konu O., Kafaligonul H., Adams M.M. (2023). Chronic long-term acetylcholinesterase inhibition alters the levels of key synaptic proteins while maintaining neuronal markers in the aging zebrafish (danio rerio) brain. Gerontology. https://doi.org/10.1159/000534343.
  • Karaduman, A., Karoglu-Eravsar, E.T., Kaya, U., Aydin, A., Adams, M.M., Kafaligonul, H. (2023). Zebrafish optomotor response to second-order motion illustrates that age-related changes in motion detection depend on the activated motion system. Neurobiology of Aging, 130, 12-21.
  • Pavan, A., Contillo, A., Koc Yilmaz, S, Kafaligonul, H., Donato, R., O’Hare, L. (2023). A comparison of equivalent noise methods in investigating local and global form and motion integration. Attention Perception and Psychophysics, 85, 152-165.
  • Duyar, A., Pavan, A., Kafaligonul, H. (2022). Attentional modulations of audiovisual interactions in apparent motion: temporal ventriloquism effects on perceived visual speed, Attention Perception and Psychophysics, 84, 2167–2185.
  • Pavan, A., Koc Yilmaz, S., Kafaligonul, H., Battaglini, L., Blurton, S.P. (2022). Motion processing impaired by transient spatial attention: potential implications for the Magnocellular pathway. Vision Research, 109: 108080.
  • Catak, E.N., Ozkan, M., Kafaligonul, H., Stoner G.R. (2022). Behavioral and ERP evidence that object-based attention utilizes fine-grained spatial mechanisms. Cortex,151, 89-104.
  • Aydin, A., Ogmen, H., Kafaligonul, H. (2021). Neural correlates of metacontrast masking across different contrast polarities. Brain Structure and Function, 226, 3067-3081.
  • Kaya, U., Kafaligonul, H. (2021). Audiovisual interactions in speeded discrimination of a visual event. Psychophysiology, 58, e13777
  • Karaduman, A., Karoglu-Eravsar, E.T., Kaya, U., Aydin, A., Adams, M.M., Kafaligonul, H. (2021). The optomotor response of aging zebrafish reveals a complex relationship between visual motion characteristics and cholinergic system. Neurobiology of Aging, 98, 21-32.
  • Celebi-Birand, D., Ardic, N.I., Karoglu-Eravsar, E.T., Sengul, G.S., Kafaligonul, H., Adams, M.M. (2020). Dietary and pharmacological interventions that inhibit mammalian target of rapamycin activity alter the brain expression levels of neurogenic and glial markers in an age- and treatment-dependent manner. Rejuvenation Research, 23(6), https://doi.org/10.1089/rej.2019.2297.
  • Akyuz, S., Pavan, A., Kaya, U., Kafaligonul, H. (2020). Short- and long-term forms of neural adaptation: an ERP investigation of dynamic motion aftereffects. Cortex, 125, 122-134.
  • Kaya, U., Kafaligonul, H. (2019). Cortical processes underlying the effects of static sound timing on perceived visual speed. NeuroImage, 199, 194-205.
  • Adams, M.M., Kafaligonul, H. (2018). Zebrafish-a model organism for studying the neurobiological mechanisms underlying cognitive brain aging and use of potential interventions. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 6: 135.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Albright T.D., Stoner, G.R. (2018). Auditory modulation of spiking activity and local field potentials in area MT does not appear to underlie an audiovisual temporal illusion. Journal of Neurophysiology, 120(3), 1340-1355.
  • Kafalıgonul, H. (2018). Examining the effects of audiovisual associations on motion perception through task-based fMRI. Dusunen Adam: The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences, 31(2), 125-134. (Published in Turkish, Original Title: İşitsel-görsel çağrışımların hareket algısı üzerine etkilerinin görev temelli fmrg ile incelenmesi)
  • Ogulmus, C., Karacaoglu, M., Kafaligonul, H. (2018). Temporal ventriloquism along the path of apparent motion: speed perception under different spatial grouping principles. Experimental Brain Research, 236(3), 629-643.
  • Kaya, U., Yildirim, Z.F., Kafaligonul, H. (2017). The involvement of centralized and distributed processes in sub-second time interval adaptation: an ERP investigation of apparent motion. European Journal of Neuroscience, 46(8), 2325-2338.
  • Oluk, C., Pavan, A., Kafaligonul, H. (2016). Rapid motion adaptation reveals the temporal dynamics of spatiotemporal correlation between ON and OFF pathways. Scientific Reports, 6:34073
  • Kafaligonul, H., Breitmeyer B.G., Ogmen, H. (2015). Feedforward and feedback processes in vision. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:279.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Oluk, C. (2015). Audiovisual associations alter the perception of low-level visual motion. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 9:26.
  • Kafaligonul, H. (2014). Vision: a systems neuroscience perspective. Journal of Neurobehavioral Sciences, 1(2), 21-26.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Stoner, G.R. (2012). Static sound timing alters sensitivity to low-level visual motion. Journal of Vision, 12(11):2, 1-9.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Stoner, G.R. (2010). Auditory modulation of visual apparent motion with short spatial and temporal intervals. Journal of Vision, 10(12):31, 1-13.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Breitmeyer, B.G., Ogmen, H. (2009). Effects of contrast polarity in paracontrast masking. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 71, 1576-1587.
  • Breitmeyer B.G., Tapia, E., Kafaligonul, H., Ogmen, H. (2008). Metacontrast masking and stimulus contast polarity. Vision Research, 48, 2433-2438.
  • Breitmeyer, B.G., Kafaligonul, H., Ogmen, H., Mardon, L., Todd, S., Ziegler, R. (2006). Meta- and paracontrast reveal differences between contour and brightness processing mechanisms. Vision Research, 46, 2645-2658.

Books

  • ​Kafaligonul, H., Breitmeyer B.G., Ogmen, H. (Eds.) (2015). Feedforward and feedback processes in vision, 151 pp, Lausanne, Frontiers Media SA.

Book Chapters

  • Celebi-Birand, D., Tuz-Sasik M.U., Ardic-Avci, N.I., Aydogan, H.O., Erbaba, B., Karoglu-Eravsar, E.T., Kafaligonul, H., Adams, M.M. (2021). The zebrafish (Danio rerio) and its uses for understanding the neuroscience of aging: applications and observation. In Martin, C.R., Preedy, V.R. and Rajendram, R. (Eds.), Assessments, Treatments and Modeling in Aging and Neurological Disease: The Neuroscience of Aging, London, Academic Press, 491-503.
  • Celebi-Birand, D., Erbaba, B. Ozdemir, A.T., Kafaligonul, H., Adams, M. (2018). Zebrafish aging models and possible interventions. In Bozkurt, Y. (Eds.), Recent Advances in Zebrafish Researches, London, InTechOpen Press, 3-26.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Patel, S.S., Ogmen, H., Bedell, H.E. , Purushothaman, G. (2010). Perceptual asynchronies and the dual-channel differential latency hypothesis. In Nijhawan, R. and Khunara, B. (Eds.), Space and Time in Perception and Action, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 379-395.

Conference Presentations and Abstracts

  • Akdogan, I., Kafaligonul, H. (2023). The phase coherence in alpha and beta frequency bands is associated with the modulations of target visibility in visual masking. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
  • Yilmaz S.K., Kafaligonul, H. (2023). Attentional demands in the visual field alter audiovisual interactions in time: EEG correlates. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Turker, A. (2023). Event-related potentials associated with the inhibitory processes of forward masking. Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. Journal of Vision 23 (9), 4998-4998.
  • Turker, A., Kafaligonul, H. (2023). Neurophysiological investigation of inhibitory processes involved in forward masking. National Neuroimaging Congress, Ankara, Turkiye.
  • Akdogan, I., Kafaligonul, H. (2022). Examining the effects of contrast ratio on metacontrast masking with electroencephalography. 44th European Conference on Visual Perception, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Netherlands. Perception vol.51 suppl.1S p.142-142.
  • Turker, A., Kafaligonul, H. (2022). EEG correlates of inhibitory processes involved in paracontrast masking. 44th European Conference on Visual Perception, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Perception vol.51 suppl.1S p.141-141.
  • Koc Yilmaz, S., Pavan, A., Contillo, A., Kafaligonul, H., Donato, R., O’Hare, L. (2022). A comparison of equivalent noise methods in investigating form/motion Integration. 44th European Conference on Visual Perception, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Perception vol.51 suppl.1S p.31-31.
  • Koc Yilmaz, S., Pavan, A., Kafaligonul, H., Battaglini, L., Blurton, S.P. (2021). The effect of transient attention on motion processing: implications for the magnocellular pathway. 43rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Virtual Meeting. Perception vol.50 suppl.1S p.71-72.
  • Catak, E.R., Kafaligonul, H. (2021). Electrophysiological investigation of attentional modulation on metacontrast masking. 43rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Virtual Meeting. Perception vol.50 suppl.1S p.181.
  • Aydin, A., Ogmen, H., Kafaligonul, H. (2021). Metacontrast masking across different contrast polarities: the role of late ERP components. Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Virtual Meeting (V-VSS). Journal of Vision 21 (9), 2083-2083.
  • Konyali, A., Kafaligonul, H. (2021). Attention differentially modulates brief and prolonged inhibitions in paracontrast masking. Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Virtual Meeting (V-VSS). Journal of Vision 21 (9), 2217-2217.
  • Konyali, A., Kafaligonul, H. (2020). The involvement of attention and masking in controlling stimulus visibility. 18th National Neuroscience Congress, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Catak, E.N., Kafaligonul, H., Ozkan, M., Stoner G.R. (2020). Neural activation for object-based selection persists despite random changes in object features. 18th National Neuroscience Congress, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Kafaligonul, H. (2020). Interdisciplinary education in neuroscience: Bilkent example. 18th National Neuroscience Congress, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Akyuz, S., Pavan, A., Kaya, U., Kafaligonul, H. (2020). Short- and long-term forms of sensory plasticity probed with a motion adaptation paradigm. 18th National Neuroscience Congress, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Karaduman, A., Karoglu Eravsar, E.T., Adams, M.M., Kafaligonul, H. (2020). Exposure-based perceptual learning in aging zebrafish. 18th National Neuroscience Congress, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Catak, E.N., Kafaligonul, H., Ozkan, M., Stoner G.R. (2019). ERP evidence for persistence of object-based selection over unpredictable changes in object attributes. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
  • Ozkan, M., Stoner G.R., Kafaligonul, H. (2019). Functional links between motion-onset visual evoked potentials and perception. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
  • Kafaligonul, H. (2019). Visual motion: a window into the functioning brain. 5th Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Duyar, A., Kafaligonul, H. (2019). Attentional modulation of audiovisual interactions in time: temporal ventriloquism in visual apparent motion. 42nd European Conference on Visual Perception, Leuven, Belgium.
  • Kaya, U., Kafaligonul, H. (2018). Neural mechanisms underlying auditory time interval effects on perceived visual speed. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
  • Akyuz, S., Pavan, A., Kafaligonul, H. (2018). Neural mechanisms underlying short- and long-term forms of plasticity probed with a motion-adaptation paradigm. 41st European Conference on Visual Perception, Trieste, Italy.
  • Kafaligonul, H. (2018). Zebrafish as a model for perceptual and cognitive performance. 16th National Neuroscience Congress, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Karaduman, A., Kaya, U., Karoglu, E.T., Arslan-Ergul, A., Adams, M.M., Kafaligonul, H. (2018). A systematic investigation of motion direction discrimination in aged zebrafish. 16th National Neuroscience Congress, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Karoglu, E.T., Tuz-Sasik M.U., Karaduman, A.,Keskus, A.G., Arslan-Ergul, A., Konu, O., Kafaligonul, H., Adams, M.M. (2018). Cholinergic modulations of synaptic protein levels in male and female aged zebrafish. 16th National Neuroscience Congress, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Celebi Birand, E.D., Ardic N.I., Sengul, G.F., Kafaligonul, H., Adams, M.M. (2018). Effects of short-term caloric restriction and rapamycin on brain aging in zebrafish (Danio rerio). 16th National Neuroscience Congress, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Karaduman, A., Kaya, U., Karoglu, E.T., Ergul-Arslan, A., Adams, M.M., Kafaligonul, H. (2017). Motion direction discrimination during neural aging. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
  • Kaya, U, Yildirim, ZF, Kafaligonul, H. (2017). Evoked potentials to visual apparent motion after auditory and visual time interval adaptation. 40th European Conference on Visual Perception, Berlin, Germany.
  • Celebi-Birand, E., Sengul, G.F., Ardic, N.I., Kafaligonul, H., Adams, M.M. (2017). Effects of short-term of caloric restriction and rapamycin treatments on cellular and synaptic components in young and old zebrafish (Danio rerio). Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
  • Karoglu, E.T., Tuz-Sasik, M.U., Keskus, A.G., Arslan-Ergul, A., Konu, O., Kafaligonul, H., Adams, M.M. (2017). Cholinergic manipulations alter the levels of key synaptic proteins in a sexually dimorphic manner in old zebrafish (Danio rerio). 10th European Zebrafish Meeting, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Kaya, U. (2016).Multisensory interactions and perceived timing. 14th National Neuroscience Meeting, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Ogulmus, C., Kafaligonul, H. (2016).Audiovisual interactions in time and spatial grouping principles of vision. 14th National Neuroscience Congress, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Yildirim, Z.F., Kaya, U., Kafaligonul, H. (2016). Auditory adaptation alters evoked potentials by visual motion over temporal and frontal regions. 14th National Neuroscience Congress, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Kaya, U. (2015). Crossmodal interactions in the timing of a visual event: An EEG study. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Oluk, C. (2014). Audiovisual associations alter low-level motion perception. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Oluk, C. (2014). Altering perception of low-level visual motion by audiovisual associations.37th European Conference on Visual Perception, Belgrade, Serbia.
  • Kafaligonul, H. (2014). Audiovisual Interactions in Cortical Area MT. 12th National Neuroscience Congress, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Stoner G.R., Albright T.D., Kafaligonul, H. (2013). A phase-resetting framework for crossmodal influences on perception. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
  • Lopes, M.A., Kafaligonul, H., Albright T.D., Stoner G.R. (2013).Surround modulation in visual area MT: Suppression/facilitation, antagonism/integration. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
  • Lopes, M.A., Kafaligonul, H., Albright, T.D., Stoner, G.R. (2013). Support for a non-human primate (NHP) model of schizophrenia: acute subanesthetic ketamine alters center-surround interactions. 7th Annual Salk/ Fondation Ipsen/ Nature Symposium on Biological Complexity: Molecular Biology of Psychiatric Disorders, La Jolla, CA.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Albright, T.D., Stoner, G.R. (2012). Neural mechanisms underlying a crossmodal temporal illusion in visual area MT. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA.
  • Lopes, M.A., Kafaligonul, H., Albright, T.D., Stoner, G.R. (2012). Support for a non-human primate (NHP) model of schizophrenia: acute subanesthetic ketamine alters center-surround interactions. Annual Southern California Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, CA.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Stoner, G.R. (2011). The timing of static sounds modulates sensitivity to low-level visual motion. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
  • Lopes, M.A., Kafaligonul, H., Albright, T.D., Stoner, G.R. (2011). Support for a non-human primate (NHP) model of schizophrenia: acute subanesthetic ketamine alters center-surround interactions. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Albright, T.D., Stoner, G.R. (2011). Modulatory effect of auditory timing on visual motion processing. Annual Meeting of the Sloan-Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neurobiology, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Stoner, G.R (2010). The auditory capture of visual timing extends to short-range apparent motion. Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. Journal of Vision, 10, 890.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Stoner, G.R (2010). Evidence that static sounds shift the temporal tuning of lower visual areas. The Kavli Institute Brain and Mind Symposium, San Diego, CA.
  • Stoner, G., Klam, F., Kafaligonul, H. (2008). An apparent disagreement between MT surround modulation and perception. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
  • Kafaligonul, H.H., Patel, S.S., Ogmen, H., Bedell, H.E., Purushothaman, G. (2006). Simultaneous flash-lag effects in two directions reveal a slow stage of multi-directional motion integration. Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. Journal of Vision, 6, 641a.
  • Ogmen, H., Breitmeyer, B.G., Kafaligonul, H., Todd, S., Mardon, L., Ziegler, R. (2006). Temporal aspects of contour and brightness processing in meta- and paracontrast. Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. Journal of Vision, 6, 122a.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Breitmeyer, B.G., Ogmen, H., Mardon, L., Todd, S., Ziegler, R. (2006). Computational and psychophysical analyses of contour and surface processing in human vision. Annual Meeting of Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Houston, TX.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Breitmeyer, B.G., Ogmen, H., Mardon, L., Todd, S., Ziegler, R (2005). The dynamics of surface and contour processing in human vision. Annual GCC Conference on Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, Houston, TX.
  • Kafaligonul, H., Ogmen, H., Bedell, H.E. (2004). Effect of exposure duration and contrast on human blur perception. Texas Systems Day Conference, Houston, TX.