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“.

Projects

ArchiveGPT: Psychological and technical perspectives on the use of multimodal large language models in archives

Modal and amodal event representations and the role of meta-cognition for dynamic event comprehension

Articles in refereed Journals

Candan Şimşek, A., Aydın, T., Demirgüneş, E. A., & Şafak, P. A. (2025). Space in movies: Continuity and perceptual load guide spatial judgements. Art & Perception. https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134913-BJA10068 Open Access

Candan Şimşek, A., Aydın, T., & Huff, M. (2024). How does it end? Endpoints of boundaries lead to completion in macro-events. Memory & Cognition. https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01657-x Open Access

Candan Şimşek, A., Aydın, T., & Ozkan, Z. G. (2024). One perspective or two? Viewpoint dependency in visual events. Current Psychology, 43, 8624–8635. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04997-0

Conference Contributions

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]

Aydın, T., Hamaloğlu, S., Nolasco, S., Said, N., Levin, D., & Huff, M. (2024, June 14-15). Modal and amodal event representations. ADok 2024. Universität Heidelberg. https://www.psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de/workshop/a-dok/ [Talk]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Open Data

Candan Şimşek, A., Aydın, T., & Ozkan, Z. G. (2024). Dataset for: One perspective or two? Viewpoint dependency in visual events. https://osf.io/qx5hd/

Contact

Tolgahan Aydin

Schleichstraße 6
72070 Tübingen
Room 6.616
phone: +49 7071 979-324
fax: +49 7071 979-124