METU-NEURO

COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH GROUP

METU COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH GROUP (Türkçe)

Principal Investigator: Assist.Prof. Didem GÖKÇAY (CV)

 

Publications
 

 

  Ph.D. Thesis
  D. Gökçay, "Self-organizing Features for Regularized Image Standardization", Doctoral Dissertation, May 2001, University of Florida
   
  M.S. Thesis   
  D. Ünlü (Gökçay), "User Identification Through Neural Network Algorithms", M.S. Thesis        in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1991, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
   
  Journal Articles
  D Bowers, K Miller, W Bosch, D. Gökçay, O Pedraza, U. Springer, M. Okun, "Faces of Emotion in Parkinson's Disease: Micro-expressivity and Brady-kinesia during Voluntary Facial Expressions", Journal of the Int. Neuropsychol. Society, 2006, 12(6), 765-73.

M.A. Cato, B. Crosson, D. Gökçay, D. Soltysik, C. Wierenga, K. Gopinath, N. Himes, H. Belanger, R.M. Bauer, I.S. Fischler, L. Gonzales-Rothi, R.W. Briggs, "Processing Words with Emotional Connotation: An fMRI Study of Time Course and Laterality in Rostral Frontal and Retrosplenial Cortices", Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2004, 16(2):167-77.

B. Crosson,  H. Benefield, M.A. Cato, J.R. Sadek,  A.B. Moore, C. E. Wierenga, K. Gopinath, D. Soltysik, R.M.Bauer, E.J. Auerbacj, D. Gökçay, C.M. Leonard, R.W. Briggs, "Left and Right Basal Ganglia and Frontal Activity during Language Generation: Contributions to Lexical, Semantic, and Phonological Processes", Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2003, 9(7):1061-77.

B. Crosson, M.A. Cato, J.R. Sadek, D. Gökçay, R.M. Bauer, I.S. Fischler, L.Maron, K. Gopinath, E.J. Auerbach, S.R. Browd, R.W. Briggs, “Semantic Monitoring of Words with Emotional Connotation during fMRI: Contribution of Anterior Left Frontal Cortex”, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2002, 8, 607-622.

B. Crosson, J. R. Sadek, L. Maron, D. Gökçay, C. M. Mohr, E. J. Auerbach, A.J. Freeman, R. W. Briggs, “Relative Shift in Activity from Medial to Lateral Frontal Cortex During Externally versus Internally Guided Word Generation”, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2001, 13(2):272-283.

B. Crosson, J.R. Sadek, J.A. Bobholz, D. Gökçay, C. Mohr, C.M. Leonard, L. Maron, E.J. Auerbach, S. Browd, A.J. Freeman, and R.W. Briggs, "Activity in the Paracingulate and Cingulate Sulci during Word Generation: An fMRI Study of Functional Anatomy", Cerebral Cortex, 1999, 9:307-316.

B. Crosson, K. Radonovich, J.R. Sadek, D. Gökçay, R.M. Bauer, I.S. Fischler, M.A. Cato, L.M. Maron, E.J. Auerbach, S. Browd, R.W. Briggs, “Left-hemisphere Processing of Emotional Connotation during Word Generation”, Neuroreport, 1999, 10:2449-2455.

D. Gökçay, C.M. Mohr, B. Crosson, C.M. Leonard, J.A. Bobholz, “LOFA: Software for Individualized Localization of Functional MRI Activity”, Neuroimage, 1999, 10 (6):749-755.

   
  Conferences
  Authored

Gökçay D., Smith MA., "TÜDADEN:Türkçede Duygusal ve Anlamsal Değerlendirmeli Norm Veri Tabanı", Proceedings of Brain-Computer Workshop 4, 2008, Istanbul

Gökçay, D., Dövencioğlu, D., "The effect of symmetry perception on attractiveness", Proceedings of Kognitif Nörobilim 5, 2008, Marmaris

Gökçay, D., Başgöze, Z., Dövencioğlu, D., Katırcıoğlu, K., Kitiş, Ö., Gönül, A.S., 'Volumetric morphology analysis of compartments of the anterior cingulate cortex in major depressive disorder', 2. Ulusal Psikofarmakoloji Kongresi Bildiri Kitabı, Istanbul, 2007

Gökçay, D., Başgöze, Z., Dövencioğlu, D., Katırcıoğlu, D., Kitiş, Gönül, A.S., 'Major Depresyon Hastalığında Ön Singulat Korteksteki Bölgesel Hacimlerin İncelenmesi', Biyomedikal Mühendisliği Ulusal Toplantısı Bildiri Kitabı, Biyomut, İstanbul, 2007

Gökçay, D., Arıkan Ş., Uzunay Y., 'Bilgisayar aracılığıyla iletişim amigdalasız bireyler mi yaratıyor?', Kognitif Nörobilim Forumu, 2007, 2(2): 67-75 

Gökçay, D., Arıkan Ş., Uzunay Y., 'Investigating behavioural problems in text-based communication by deriving an analogy between brain damage and media richness', ICANN 2007, 'Workshop on What it Means to Communicate', 2007, Porto

D. Gökçay, J.G. Harris, C.M. Leonard, R.W. Briggs, “A Fast Algorithm based on SOMs for Non-linear Alignment of Local Anatomic Structures“, Proceedings of Human Brain Mapping, Japan, 2002

D. Gökçay, J. G. Harris, C.M. Leonard, R.W. Briggs, "Self-organizing features for regularized standardization of brain images", Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2001, San Diego, February 2001.

D. Gökçay, D. Bowers, C. Richardson, A. Desai, “Use of Local Entropy Changes as a Measure for Identification of Facial Expressions”, Proceedings of ICASSP, 2000, Istanbul, June 2000.

D. Gökçay, B.Crosson, A. Moore, R.W. Briggs, "New Region of Interest Paradigm Improves Interpretation of Activity in Functional Images of the Brain", Proceedings of the Brain-Machine 2000 Workshop, 2000, pp. 21-27

D. Gökçay, E. Gökçay,Generating Titles for Paragraphs Using Statistically Extracted Keywords and Phrases”,  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, V. 4 1995. pp. 3174-3179

D. Gökçay, A. Sonmez, "Performance Management of the SQL/DS Data System", Proceedings of Bilgisayar Dergisi 8th Turkish Computer Conference, 1991, Istanbul

D. Ünlü (Gökçay), U. Halici, "User Identification Through Neural Networks", Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on AI and Neural Nets, 1990, Zurich

Co-Authored

Aksoy S., Boyacı H., Gökçay D., "The importance of context and semantic descriptions in object recognition: Studies in computer vision and human vision", Proceedings of 16th Turkish Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (SIU), 2008, Didim

Erdeniz, B., Akın Z., Gökçay, D. "Beyinde hangi sistemler zamana bağlı karar vermede etkilidir?", Proceedings of Brain-Computer Workshop 4, 2008, Istanbul

Kaymakoğlu, B., Arıöz, U., Erkmen, A., Gökçay, D., 'Evaluation of Breast Lesion Diagnostic Tests using Information Graphs', Proceedings of International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (HIBIT), Antalya, 2007
Erdeniz B., Gökçay D., Say B., 'Reward Mediated Probabilistic Learning', Cognitive Neuroscience Forum, 2007, 2(2): 61-66

Gökçay D., "Brain morphology as a function indicator: Studies on autism, dyslexia and schizophrenia", 5th National Congress of Neuroscience, Supplement to Neuroanatomy, Vol 5, 2006, Zonguldak

S. Pinto, R. Cesar-Jr., D. Gökçay , L. da Costa, "Characterization of Neuroanatomic Structures Using 3-d Wavelet-Based Normal Fields", International Symposium on Signal Processing and Applications, Spain, 2003

M. Hamby, A. Desai, D. Gökçay, D. Bowers, “Digitizing the Moving Face During Non-emotional Expressions”, International Neuropsychology Society, Hawaii, February 2003

O. Pedraza, S. Bongiolatti, W. Bosch, D. Gökçay, D. Bowers, “Static versus Dynamic Measures of Facial Expression in Parkinson’s Disease”, International Neuropsychology Society, Hawaii, February 2003

D. Bowers, W. Bosch, C. Peden, W. Tirggs, D. Gökçay, “Faces of Emotion in Parkinson’s Disease: Microexpressivity and Bradykinesia during Voluntary Emotions”, International Neuropsychology Society, Hawaii, February 2003

Crosson B, Benefield H, Cato MA, Sadek JR, Gopinath K, Soltysik D, Bauer RM, Auerbach EJ, Gokcay D, Leonard CM, Briggs RW, Left parahippocampal gyrus activity during language generation, Proceedings of Human Brain Mapping, June, 2001

W. Triggs, D. Bowers, D. Gökçay,  “Lateralized Asymmetry of Facial Motor Evoked Responses”, American Academy of Neurology, Philadelphia, May 2001.

S.C.D. Pinto, R.M. Cesar, D. Gökçay, L. da F. Costa, "3D Morphological Analysis of Brain MRI using Wavelets", Proceedings of Digital Signal Processing, Greece, 2002

A. Bacon Moore, C. Loftis, B. Crosson, D. Gökçay, C. M. Leonard, and A. L. Foundas, “Localization of Functional Activity in Pars Triangularis”, International Neuropsychology Society, Chicago, February 2001

D. Bowers, R. Gilmore, D. Gökçay, S. Roper, M. Rogish, S. Kortenkamp, "Laterality effects in verbal emotional modulation of startle", International Neuropsychology Society, Chicago, February 2001   

A. Desai, D. Gökçay, C. Richardson, M. Hamby, D. Bowers. "Digitizing the moving face during emotion displays: movement asymmetries and gender". International Neuropsychology Society,  Chicago, February 2001. 

B. Crosson,  H. Benefield, M. A. Cato, J. R. Sadek, G. Kaundinya, D. Soltysik, R. M. Bauer, E. J. Auerbach, D. Gökçay, R. W. Briggs, “Subcortical Activity during Word and Syllable Generation: An fMRI Study”, International Neuropsychology Society, Chicago, February 2001 

M.A. Cato, B. Crosson, J.R. Sadek, K. Radonovich, S. R. Browd, D. Gökçay, R. M. Bauer, I. S. Fischler, L. Maron, E. J. Auerbach, R. W. Briggs, “Semantic Processing for Animal Names, Tool names, and words with Emotional Connotations; An fMRI Investigation”, International Neuropsychology Society, 2000,Denver

R.W. Briggs, J.M. Anderson, B. Crosson, L.M. Maher, H.L. Roth, S.G. Kaundinya, D. Gökçay,
J.R. Sadek, L.J. Gonzales Rothi, E.J. Auerbach, D.A. Soltysik, “Preliminary Evidence of  Language Reorganization After Left Hemispheric Injury: A Whole Brain, Event-related fMRI Study of Sentence Production”, Proceedings of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine”, 2000, Denver

J.M. Anderson, R.W. Briggs, B. Crosson, S.G. Kaundinya, D. Gökçay, J.R. Sadek, L.J. Gonzales Rothi, E.J. Auerbach, D.A. Soltysik, K.M. Heilman,  “Evidence of Right Hemisphere Engagement during Production of Overt Emotional Prosody: An Event-related fMRI Study”, Proceedings of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine”, 2000, Denver

C. Loftis, T. Zawacki, R. Bauer, B. Crosson, R. Briggs, J. Sadek, E. Auerbach, D. Gökçay, G. Kaundinya, “Occipital and Temporal Lobe Activation using an Explicit Memory Task”, International Neuropsychology Society, 2000, Denver

J.M. Anderson, R.W. Briggs, B. Crosson, D.Q. Beversdorf, M. Kim, D. Gökçay, A.J. Freeman, C. Mohr, J.R. Sadek, M.B. Gordon, K.M. Heilman, “The Neural Substrates of Hand Agility: Asymmetrical Selective Engagement of Primary Motor Cortex”, Proceedings of American Academy of Neurology Meeting, 1998

R. Gilmore, D. Bowers, R. Bauer, M. Rogish, S. Kortenkamp, D. Gökçay, M. Bradley, S. Roper, Startle Modulation in Complex Partial Epilepsy”, Proceedings of American Epilepsy Society, 1998, San Francisco

E. Gökçay, D. Gökçay, "Combining Statistics and Heuristics in Language Identification", Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, 1995, Las Vegas

 
 
 

 

   

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