Introduction
Zeynep studied Psychology and Neuroscience at Bilkent University. After a Master thesis on audio-visual associations and motion perception, she joined the PhD program in Psychology at the University of Bern, where she studied appearance in peripheral vision in Prof. Bilge Sayim’s Lab. Her PhD project focused on a novel effect called “redundancy masking”, which is the substantial compression of redundant information in peripheral vision. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the SCALab at the University of Lille working with Prof. Bilge Sayim and in collaboration with Prof. Wolf Harmening on a project about redundancy masking and adaptive optics.
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
Yildirim, F. Z., & Sayim, B. (2022). High confidence and low accuracy in redundancy masking. Consciousness and Cognition, 102, 103349. [open access]
Yildirim, F. Z., Coates, D. R., & Sayim, B. (2022). Atypical visual field asymmetries in redundancy masking. Journal of Vision, 22(5):4, 1–15. [open access]
Yildirim, F. Z., Coates, D. R., & Sayim, B. (2021). Hidden by bias: How standard psychophysical procedures conceal unbiased visual appearance. Scientific Reports, 11, 4095. [open access]
Yildirim, F. Z., Coates, D. R., & Sayim, B. (2020). Redundancy masking: The loss of repeated items in crowded peripheral vision. Journal of Vision, 20(4): 14. [open access]
Kaya, U., Yildirim, F. Z., & 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. [download] [online]
Conference abstracts
Yildirim, F. Z., Aschwanden, R., & Sayim, B. (2022). Imagine that! Visual imagery alleviates crowding. Virtual annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 2022.
Li, M., Yildirim, F. Z., Alp, N., & Sayim, B. (2021). Feature migration in redundancy masking. GDR Vision Forum, October 2021.
Yildirim, F. Z., & Sayim, B. (2021). Low accuracy and high confidence in redundancy masking. European Conference on Visual Perception, August 2021.
Li, M., Yildirim, F. Z., Alp, N., & Sayim, B. (2021). Seeing features of unseen objects: feature migration in redundancy masking. European Conference on Visual Perception, August 2021.
Yildirim, F. Z., Coates, D.R., & Sayim, B. (2019). Spatial compression in redundancy masking. In: Poster session presented at the 16th SPS SGP SSP Conference, September 2019, Bern, Switzerland.
Yildirim, F. Z., Coates, D.R., & Sayim, B. (2019). No help for lost lines: Redundancy masking is strong under focused and diffuse attention. In: Talk session presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception, August 2019, Leuven, Belgium.
Yildirim, F. Z., Coates, D.R., & Sayim, B. (2019). Lost lines in warped space: Evidence for spatial compression in crowded displays. In: Talk session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, May 2019, St Pete Beach, USA, pp. 13-13.
Yildirim, F. Z., Coates, D.R., & Sayim, B. (2018). Visual references reverse diminishment in crowding. In: Poster session presented at ECVP, 26 -30 August 2018, Trieste, Italy (Perception (2019) Vol 48, pp 53-53).
Sayim, B., Melnik, N., Yildirim, F. Z., & Coates, D. R. (2017). Capturing appearance in crowded peripheral vision. GDR Vision Meeting, 11-12 October 2017, Lille, France.
Sayim, B., Melnik, N., Yildirim, F. Z., & Coates, D. R. (2017). Creating peripheral shape metamers. Perception, 46, ECVP, 27-31 August 2017, p. 57.
Coates, D. R., Yildirim, F. Z., Melnik, N., & Sayim, B. (2017). Deconstructing peripheral appearance. Perception 46, ECVP, 27 -31 August 2017, Berlin, Germany, p. 141.
Yildirim, F.Z., Coates, D. R., & Sayim, B. (2017). Crowding impairs subitizing. Perception 46, ECVP, 27 -31 August 2017, Berlin, Germany, p. 54.