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Seminar: The neurobiological mechanisms underlying stress susceptibility
Speaker: Emine Eren Koçak Time: January 22, 2026,16:30 Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract: One of the most fundamental questions in psychiatry is why certain individuals develop mental disorders after exposure to stressors while others don’t. This talk explores the neurobiological basis of stress susceptibility. Dendritic atrophy is well-demonstrated after chronic stress exposure in medial…
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Seminar: Human-Robot Interaction as Distributed Cognition: Joint Action, Embodiment, and Situated Interaction
Speaker: Bilge Mutlu (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Time: January 6, 2026,11:00 Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract: Human-robot interaction is often framed in terms of interfaces, autonomy, or task performance. In this talk, I argue that HRI is more productively understood as the study of distributed cognitive systems where cognition emerges across humans, machines, and…
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Seminar: Keeping in Mind What’s Worth Keeping: How the Mind Reactivates What Matters by Eren Günseli
Speaker: Eren Günseli (Sabancı University) Time: December 11, 2025, 16:30 Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract: Working memory is often described as a mental workspace that actively keeps task-relevant information online. Yet, sustaining such activation is metabolically costly and unnecessary when familiar contexts or rules can automatically cue what we need.…