Scientist
Tolgahan Aydin
Tolgahan Aydin
Member of Perception and Action Lab
Since November 2023, Tolgahan Aydin has been working as a research associate and PhD student in the Perception and Action lab at the IWM. As a lab member, he is working on the „Modal and Amodal Event Representations and the Role of Meta-Cognition for Dynamic Event Comprehension“ project. He is also working on his doctoral thesis, which is about modal and amodal event representations. His PhD position is split between the IWM and the University of Tübingen.
Tolgahan Aydin studied Psychology (B.A), with a focus on cognitive psychology, at the Yaşar University, Izmir, Turkey. He also completed his master’s degree in psychology at the same university with his thesis called „Perceptual and Conceptual Features of Event Segmentation“.
Tolgahan Aydin
Schleichstr. 6
72072 Tübingen
Room 6.616
+49 7071 979-324t.aydin@iwm-tuebingen.deLab membership
Projects
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ArchiveGPT: Psychological and technical perspectives on the use of multimodal large language models in archives
Perception and Action lab
Duration 09/2024 - open
Go to ProjectModal and amodal event representations and the role of meta-cognition for dynamic event comprehension
Perception and Action lab
Duration 10/2023 - 09/2026
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Publications
Articles (peer-reviewed)
- Candan Şimşek, A., Aydın, T., Demirgüneş, E. A., & Şafak, P. A. (2025). Space in movies: Continuity and perceptual load guide spatial judgements. Art & Perception. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134913-BJA10068
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- Candan Şimşek, A., Aydın, T., & Huff, M. (2024). How does it end? Endpoints of boundaries lead to completion in macro-events. Memory & Cognition. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01657-x
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- Candan Şimşek, A., Aydın, T., & Ozkan, Z. G. (2024). One perspective or two? Viewpoint dependency in visual events. Current Psychology, 43, 8624–8635. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04997-0
Research data
- Candan Şimşek, A., Aydın, T., Demirgüneş, E. A., & Şafak, P. A. (2025). Space in movies: Continuity and perceptual load guide spatial judgements [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134913-BJA10068
- Candan Şimşek, A., Aydın, T., & Ozkan, Z. G. (2024). Dataset for: One perspective or two? Viewpoint dependency in visual events [Data set]. https://osf.io/qx5hd/
- Candan Şimşek, A., Aydın, T., & Huff, M. (2024). How does it end? Endpoints of boundaries lead to completion in macro-events [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01657-x
Other publications
- Abele, L., Anders, G., Aydın, T., Buder, J., Fischer, H., Kimmel, D., & Huff, M. (2025). ArchiveGPT: A human-centered evaluation of using a vision language model for image cataloguing. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.07551
Presentations und Conferences
Talks
- Aydin, T., Huff, M., Said, N., & Levin, D. (2025, May 25-27). Unveiling the amodal mechanisms of event completion: Interplay of familiarity, closure and context grain. A-Dok Conference. RWTH Aachen University, Aachen. https://www.psych.rwth-aachen.de/cms/psy/Das-Institut/Kognitions-und-Experimentalpsychologie/~bkxfym/A-Dok/lidx/1/ [Talk]
- Candan Şimşek, A., Aydın, T., & Rooney, B. (2024, June 7). Breaking the 4th wall in movies: Mental attributions and narrative engagement. 2024 Conference of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI). Budapest, Hungary. [Talk]
- Aydın, T., Hamaloğlu, S., Nolasco, S., Said, N., Levin, D., & Huff, M. (2024, June 14-15). Modal and amodal event representations. ADok 2024. Psychologisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg. https://www.psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de/workshop/a-dok/ [Talk]
- Candan Şimşek, A., Aydın, T., & Huff, M. (2023, September 6-9). Remembering everyday events: Boundaries promote event completion through backwards inferences. 23th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP). Porto, Portugal. [Talk]
Poster presentations
- Aydın, T., Hamaloğlu, S., Nolasco, S., Said, N., & Huff, M. (2024, March 17-20). Grain of events shape modality of their representations: Fine context triggers modal representations. 66. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen (TeaP) - Conference of Experimental Psychologists. Universität Regensburg. [Poster presentation]
- Aydın, T., Hamaloğlu, S., Nolasco, S., Said, N., Levin, D., & Huff, M. (2024, May 15-17). Grain size in modal and amodal event representations. International Workshop on Modal and Amodal Cognition. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. [Poster presentation]
- Candan Şimşek, A., Aydın, T., & Huff, M. (2024, November 21-24). How does it end? Endpoints of boundaries lead to completion in macro events. 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. New York City, NY, USA. [Poster presentation]