Cognition, Emotion, and Cognitive Aging Laboratory

 

In the Cognition, Emotion, and Cognitive Aging Laboratory, memory and attention processes, the interaction of these processes with emotional and social factors, and their change with healthy aging are studied, mainly by using the experimental method. Findings are interpreted with a cognitive science perspective, by referring to the theories and inferences of philosophy of mind, linguistics, and neuroscience besides cognitive psychology.

 

General information about the research areas and the related publications and graduate theses from the lab are presented below.

 

Cognition/Cognition and Emotion Interactions

 

Memory and attention processes and their interactions with emotion are investigated. The effects of emotion on cognition are studied by varying the emotional state of the participants or by systematically manipulating the emotional valence or intensity of the experimental materials. The effects of cognition on emotion are studied in the context of emotion regulation.

 

Publications:

 

Sıtkı, M., Ikier, S., & Şener, N. (2024). Reduced false memory in the second language of Turkish-English bilinguals. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 1-9. (SCI-e & Scopus)

 

Ikier, S., & Demirci, Ş. N. (2023). Çocukta belleğin gelişimi. S. Erden Çınar (Ed.), Çocuk psikolojisi, (s. 113-130). PEGEM Akademi.

 

Ikier, S., Dönerkayalı, C., Halıcı, Ö. S., Kaymak Gülseren, Z. A., Göksal, H., & Akbaş, B. (2024). When is memory more reliable? Scientific findings, theories, and myths. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 31(1), 77-94. (SCI-e & Scopus) 

 

Pakkan, C., Ikier, S., & Mortan Sevi, O. (2024). Effects of anxiety level on directed forgetting of emotional information and related metacognitive judgments. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 31(4), 585-594. (SCI-e & Scopus) 

 

Tumen, C., & Ikier, S. (2022). Exhaustion of the executive control capacity eliminates retrieval induced forgetting. Psychological Reports, 125(6), 3126-3140. (SSCI & Scopus)

 

Coşkunçay, M, Ikier, S., & Şener, S. (2020/2022). Detection of expected versus unexpected changes. Current Psychology, 41(3), 1139-1147.  (SSCI & Scopus) 

 

Çapan D., & Ikier, S. (2021). Metamemory and memory discrepancies in directed-forgetting of emotional information. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 17(1), 44-52. (Scopus)

 

Çakar, M. & Ikier, S. (2021). Priming effects for the unexpected stimulus in inattentional blindness. Nesne, 9(19), 19-28.(TRDizin)

 

Ikier, S., & Gökel, N. (2019). Can language of thought hypothesis provide a solution to the problems of linguistic context dependency in memory? (in Turkish), Kaygı, 18(1), 134-153. (TRDizin)

 

Raman, İ., Raman, E., Ikier, S., Kilecioğlu, E., Uzun, D., Zeyveli, S. (2018). Differential effects of age of acquisition and frequency on memory: Evidence from free recall of pictures and words in Turkish. Writing Systems Research, 10(1), 1-14.(Scopus)

 

Ikier, S. (2008). A study to create the memory block materials in Turkish (in Turkish). Turkish Journal of Psychology, 23(62), 53-62. (SSCI, Scopus, ULAKBİM)

 

Halpern, D. F., & Ikier, S. (2002). Causes, correlates, and caveats: Understanding the development of sex differences in cognition. In A. V. McGillicuddy-De Lisi, & R. De Lisi (Eds.), Biology, society and behavior: The development of sex differences in cognition (Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology Series, Vol. 21), (pp 3-22). Westport, CT: Ablex Publishing.

 

Mental Time Travel

 

The phenomenological experience of autobiographical memories, future events, and counterfactual events is investigated. Change in phenomenological experience for emotionally loaded events and its strong bonds with the self are among the topics of interest.

 

Publications:

 

Ikier, S., Duman, Ç., & Gökel, N. (2022). Phenomenological experience of mental time travel with a counterpart self. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36(3), 526-547. (SSCI & Scopus) 

 

Ikier, S., Tekcan, A. I., Gulgoz, S., & Kuntay, A. C. (2003). Whose life is it anyway? Adoption of each other's autobiographical memories by twins. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 237-247.  (SSCI & Scopus)

 

Cognitive Aging

 

Normative cognitive aging is investigated, once more by considering the interaction of cognition with emotion and social factors. In addition to young and older participants, we also test commonly ignored middle-aged participants in some of the studies

 

Publications:

 

Ikier, S. & Akdere, S. (accepted). Neural basis of healthy cognitive aging (in Turkish). In C. Hıdıroğlu Ongun, & S. Şandor (Eds.), Nöropsikolojik değerlendirme: Teoriden pratiğe. Ankara: Nobel Yayıncılık.

 

Akdere, S., & Ikier, S. (2024). Age-consistent phenomenological experience in remembering the past and imagining the past and the future. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 31(3), 218-228. (SCI-e & Scopus) 

 

Tunç, R., & Ikier, S. (2023). Age differences in Inattentional blindness to emotional stimulus. Current Psychology, 42(10), 8327-8334. (SSCI & Scopus) 

 

Ikier, S., & Duman, Ç. (2020/2022). The happiest and the saddest autobiographical memories and aging. Current Psychology, 41(7), 4907-4919. (SSCI & Scopus) 

 

Ikier, S., & Çakar, M. (2018). Normal Cognitive Aging. In M. Irak (Ed.), Davranış Bozuklukları ve Biliş (s.65-96). İstanbul: Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Yayınları.

 

Ikier, S. (2009). Age stereotypes versus gender stereotypes and cognitive performance: A threat or release from threat for older women? In H. T. Benninghouse, & A. G. Rosset (Eds.), Women and aging: New research, (pp. 389-401). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (Scopus)

 

Yahyagil, M. Y. & Ikier, S. (2009). Job satisfaction, emotion regulation, stress relations and aging. Öneri, 8(31), 43-51. (TRDizin)

 

Ikier, S., Yang, L., & Hasher, L. (2008). Implicit proactive interference, age, and automatic versus controlled retrieval strategies. Psychological Science, 19, 456-461. (SCI, SSCI & Scopus)

 

Ikier, S., Payır, A., & Kurçaloğlu, T. (2007). Emotion-cognition interactions and aging (in Turkish). GeroBilim, 1(1), 23-43.

 

Ikier, S. & Hasher, L. (2006). Age differences in implicit interference. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 61(5), 278-284. (SSCI & Scopus)