Principle Researcher

Miri Besken

Miri Besken is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Bilkent University. Prior to completing her Ph.D in Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she obtained her B.S. in Psychology from Middle East Technical University and an M.A. in Developmental Psychology from Koç University. Before coming to Bilkent University, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Heinrich Heine Universität in Düsseldorf, Germany. Her research interests lie in the intersection of memory, learning and metacognitive processes with a focus on healthy young adults.

Phone: +90 (312) 290 17 28
E-mail: mbesken@bilkent.edu.tr

Graduate Students

Öykü Aydın

Öykü received her B.S. and M.A. in Psychology from Çankaya University. She is currently a third-year Ph.D. student in Psychology at Bilkent University. Her research primarily centers on the implications of encoding strategies in long-term memory. She is continuing her doctoral studies under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Miri Besken. Broadly, she is working on how the cognitive offloading phenomenon applies to long-term memory. Her current project explores how photo-taking and note-taking strategies affect memory and metamemory processes, as well as underlying cognitive mechanisms.

E-mail: oyku.aydin@bilkent.edu.tr

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Undergraduate Students

Alumni

  • Nilsu Atılgan (Assistant Professor at Bilkent University)
  • Meltem Karaca (Postdoctoral Researcher at Boston University)
  • Belgin Ünal (Ph.D. student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • Ecem Eylül Ardıç (Ph.D. student at WUSTL)
  • Ezgi Melisa Yüksel (Ph.D. student at UW-Madison)
  • Fatih Yavuz (Ph.D. student at METU)
  • Gizem Filiz (Ph.D. student at WUSTL)
  • Samet Kaya (Ph.D. student at UNC)
  • Aşkın Su Aşkınol (M.Sc. student at Maastricht University)
  • Berru Benan Orhan (M.A. student at KU Leuven)
  • Ceren Bal (M.Sc. student at University of Amsterdam)
  • Ezgi Özgan (M.A. student at Bilkent University)
  • İpek Şahin (M.A. student at Sabancı University)
  • Meryem Gökçe Yavuz (M.A. student at Boğaziçi University)
  • Nilsu Sağlam (M.Sc. student at University of Tübingen)
  • Sencer Topcu (M.Sc. student in Barcelona)
  • Derya Karademir
  • Elif Cemre Solmaz
  • Elif Hilal Kurt
  • Esra Elibüyük
  • Ezgi Ersen Ceylan
  • Deren Ateş
  • Duygu Uraş
  • Gamze Nur Eroğlu
  • Rengin Dalkıran
  • Şevval Yörük