Conference Presentations and Posters

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• Aktunc, M.E. & Karsilar, H. (2020) "Uncertainty Reduction and Reaction Times in Wason's Rule Discovery Task." Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, Vol. 25. 

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• Aktunc, M.E., Baytimur, E., Uysal, B., Hazar, C., Erengin, T. (2018) "Choice Blindness in Different Experimental Settings." Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, Vol. 23. 

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2017) "Error Probabilities and Uncertainty in Inductive Reasoning” IV. Symposium on Experimental-Cognitive Psychology, September, 14-15, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.

 

• Aktunc, M.E., Hazar, C., Baytimur, E. (2016). “Error Rates vs. Uncertainty Reduction: What Works Better in a Rule Discovery Task?” Poster presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, The 37th Annual Conference. Boston, MA.

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• Aktunc, M.E. (2014). “Öğrenileni/Ölçüleni Belirlemek: Bilişsel Nörobilim’de Kanıt ve Çıkarım.” [Determining What is Being Measured/Learned: Evidence and Inference in Cognitive Neuroscience.] Türk Nöropsikiyatri Derneği, 7. Nöropsikiyatri Günleri & 100. Yıl Sempozyumu. [Turkish Neuropsychiatry Association, 7th Neuropsychiatry Days & Centennial Symposium.] Istanbul, Turkey.

 

• Symposium Organizer/Speaker at the 2012 Meeting of Philosophy of Science Association Symposium: Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience: Evidence and Inference in Neuroimaging

Paper: Aktunc, M.E. (2012). “Severe Tests in Neuroimaging: What We Can Learn and How We Can Learn It.” San Diego, CA, USA.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2011). “Resolving Duhemian Problems in fMRI Experiments.” Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. New Orleans, LA USA.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2010). “’Voodoo Correlations’, Salmon Thoughts, and the Promised Science of fMRI.” Dissertation Seminar. Dept. of Science and Technology in Society, Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, VA,USA.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2008). “Ruthless Reductionism: What Are They Reducing?” The University of Iowa Graduate Philosophical Society, Fourth Annual Conference. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA,USA.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2007). “Levels of Hypotheses in Functional Neuroimaging.” Beyond the Borders, Among the Sciences: The Exeter Methodology Workshop in the Sociology and Philosophy of Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2007). Commentary on Brian J. Fiala, "Materialism and the Psychology of Explanation" Virginia Tech Graduate Philosophy Conference, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2006). “The Tacking Paradox: A Critique of Bayesian Treatments and an Error-Statistical Proposal for Its Solution.” The First Symposium on Philosophy, History, and Methodology of E.R.R.O.R* (Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, Objectivity & Rationality: Induction, Statistics, Modeling) Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA,USA.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. & Poremba, A.  (2002). “Effects of amygdala lesions on spatial reference memory using an eight-arm radial maze with differential rewards." Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, Orlando, FL,USA.

 

• Gülgöz, S. , Aktunç, M. E., Şenol, D., & Van, H. A. (2000). “The effects of testing and delay on recall and learning of information from texts.” The Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, France.

 

• Gülgöz, S., Aktunç, M. E., & Eskenazi, T.  (1999). “Recall of text information in two languages by bilinguals.” The Eleventh Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Gent, Belgium.

 

• Gülgöz, S., Kumkale, T., Aktunc, M. E., & Eskenazi, T. (1998). “Text processing models and research as tools for designing learnable texts.” International Conference on Document Design, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

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• Gülgöz, S., Kumkale, G. T., & Aktunc, M. E. (1998). “The effects of text coherence, need for cognition, and prior knowledge on situation models.” Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

 

• Gülgöz, S., Aktunc, M. E., & Kumkale, T. (1998). “Effects of need for cognition, text coherence, and prior knowledge on learning from text.” Tenth Congress of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Jerusalem, Israel.

 

• Aktunç, M. E., Kumkale, G. T., Eskenazi, T. T., & Gülgöz, S. (1998). “Metinler arasi etkilesim ve metin yapisi ile bilginin ögrenmeye etkileri.” [Interaction between texts and the effects of text structure on learning.] Onuncu Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi, Ankara.[Paper presented at the Tenth Annual Congress of Psychology, Ankara.]

 

• Kumkale, G. T., Aktunç, M. E., Eskenazi, T. T., & Gülgöz S. (1998). “Okuma stratejilerinin, bilginin ve metin yapısının öğrenme üzerindeki etkileri.” [The effects of motivational orientations, prior knowledge, text structure and need for cognition on learning from texts.] Onuncu Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi, Ankara. [Paper presented at the Tenth Annual Congress of Psychology, Ankara.]

 

• Eskenazi, T. T., Aktunç, M. E., Kumkale, G. T., & Gülgöz S. (1998). “Metin yapısı ile okuma davranışı arasındaki ilişkiler.” [Text structure and reading behavior relationship.] Onuncu Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi, Ankara. [Paper presented at the Tenth Annual Congress of Psychology, Ankara.]

 

Invited Talks

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2015). “Determining the Underdetermined: Evidence and Inference in Functional Neuroimaging.” Monday Seminars, Dept. of Philosophy, Middle East Technical University, Ankara.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2014). “Bilişsel Nörobilim’de Kanıt ve Çıkarım.” [Evidence and Inference in Cognitive Neuroscience.] Neurology Seminars, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2014). “Useful Theory-Ladenness in fMRI: Errors, Inference, and Knowledge in Cognitive Neuroscience.” Faculty of Engineering Seminars, İstanbul Bilgi University.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2013). “On Bickle’s ‘Ruthless Reductionism’ in Cellular/Molecular Neuroscience: What Are They Reducing?” Conference on Neurology, Philosophy of Biology, and Artificial Intelligence, Koç University Philosophy Department, Istanbul, Turkey.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2012). “Bilişsel Nörobilim’de Kanıt ve Çıkarım.” [Evidence and Inference in Cognitive Neuroscience.] Neurology Seminars, Istanbul College of Medicine, Istanbul.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2012). “Resolving Duhemian Problems in Cognitive Neuroscience.” Brains, Mind and Language #2: A Philosophy/Cognitive Science Workshop Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2012). “Determining the Underdetermined: Evidence, Inference, and Knowledge in Cognitive Neuroscience.” Philosophy Department Seminars, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2011). “Assisting Cognitive Neuroscience with the Error-Statistical Philosophy.” Social Science Seminar Series, Koç University, Istanbul.

 

• Aktunc, M.E. (2011). “Salmon Thoughts, ‘Voodoo Correlations’, and Severe Tests: How the Error-Statistical Philosophy Can Help the Science of fMRI.” Human Neuroimaging Lab, Virginia Tech Carillion Research Inst., Roanoke, VA, USA.