Principle Researcher
Miri Besken
Miri Besken is an Assistant 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
Current Grad Students
Öykü Aydın
Öykü graduated from Çankaya University Psychology Department in 2020 and Psychology (Cognitive) M.A. program in 2023. Her master’s thesis was about how does emotion affect the prospective memory. She is currently a first-year Ph.D. student in Bilkent University Psychology graduate program. She is mainly interested in encoding strategies. She is currently working on a project that investigates how different types of encoding strategies affect the memory and metamemory. In addition, she is a part of a project investigating the cognitive offloading and aging.
E-mail: oyku.aydin@bilkent.edu.tr
Fatih Yavuz
Fatih graduated from METU Psychology Department in 2021. He is currently a third-year M.A. student in Bilkent University Psychology graduate program. He is mainly interested in the generation effect on memory and metamemory. Also, his research extends to the metamemory reactivity to understand emotional enhancement theory.
E-mail: yavuzfatih.ulti@gmail.com
Rengin Dalkıran
Rengin graduated from Çankaya University Psychology Department in 2019 and King’s College Neuroscience M.Sc. program in 2020. She is currently a third-year M.A. student in Bilkent University Psychology graduate program. She is mainly interested in the perceptual fluency and recognition memory.
E-mail: rengin.dalkiran@bilkent.edu.tr
Undergraduate Students
Nilsu Sağlam
Nilsu is a third-year undergraduate student in the Psychology department. Her project investigates the effects of fluency in gestures on memory and metamemory.
Duygu Uraş
Duygu is a fourth-year undergraduate student in the Psychology department. She is mainly interested in the metamemory and JOL-Reactivity. Her research project investigates the effect of Judgments of Learning reactivity on the memory performance of emotionally valenced words.
Alumni
Ecem Eylül Ardıç (Currently Ph.D. student at WUSTL)
Ezgi Melisa Yüksel (Currently Ph.D. student at UW-Madison)
Gizem Filiz (Currently Ph.D. student at WUSTL)
Samet Kaya (Currently Ph.D. student at University of North Carolina)
Berru Benan Orhan (Currently M.A. student at KU Leuven)
Ceren Bal (Currently M.Sc. student at University of Amsterdam)
Ezgi Özgan (Currently M.A. student at Bilkent University)
Meryem Gökçe Yavuz (Currently M.A. student at Boğaziçi University)
Sencer Topcu (Currently M.Sc. student in Barcelona)
Aşkın Su Aşkınol
Elif Hilal Kurt
Gamze Nur Eroğlu
