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Nihan Alp Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Faculty Member (216) 483 9000 / 3184 nihanalp@sabanciuniv.edu

Personal Web

http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/nihanalp/about/

Jobs

Faculty Member

Education

2012-2017, PhD. in Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)

2010-2012, MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento

2005-2010, BA in Psychology, University of Fatih

Areas of Interest

EEG, SSVEP, frequency tagging, perceptual organization, visual neuroscience

Memberships

Vision Science Society, Brain Research Community

Duymaz, Mücahit İlker and Kogo, Naoki and Alp, Nihan (2026) "Origin of neural frequency responses: sensory coding versus structural influences", Cortex, Vol.198, 137-154 (SCI, SSCI)

Duymaz, Mücahit İlker and Alp, Nihan (2025) "Distinct rules for perceptual grouping in position-based and velocity-based motion systems", Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. Published Online First https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03135-1

Alp, Nihan and Anstis, Stuart (2025) "Perceptual grouping and the bounce-stream illusion", i-Perception, Vol.16, No.3 (SSCI)

Kazan, Cansu and Bolat, Nilsu and Aksu, Zeynep and Alp, Nihan (2025) "Exploring visual search: past and current insights", Studies in Psychology, Vol.45, No.1, 38-63 (ESCI)

Moreau, Rachel and Alp, Nihan and Clarke, Alasdair D. F. and Freud, Erez and Kohler, Peter J. (2025) "Visual search efficiency is modulated by symmetry type and texture regularity", Journal of Vision, Vol.25, No.6 (SCI)

Anstis, Stuart and Alp, Nihan (2024) "Ambiguous apparent motion in exchanging disks", i-Perception, Vol.15, No.5 (SSCI)

Alp, Nihan and Lale, Gülce and Saglam, Ceren and Sayim, Bilge (2024) "Author correction: The effect of processing partial information in dynamic face perception (Scientific Reports, (2024), 14, 1, (9794), 10.1038/s41598-024-58605-7)", Scientific Reports, Vol.14, No.1 (SCI)

Alp, Nihan and Lale, Gülce and Saglam, Ceren and Sayim, Bilge (2024) "The effect of processing partial information in dynamic face perception", Scientific Reports, Vol.14, No.1 (SCI)

Şentürk, Yağmur Damla and Tavacıoğlu, Ebru Ecem and Duymaz, M. İlker and Sayim, Bilge and Alp, Nihan (2023) "The Sabancı University Dynamic Face Database (SUDFace): development and validation of an audiovisual stimulus set of recited and free speeches with neutral facial expressions", Behavior Research Methods, Vol.55, No.6, 3078-3099 (SSCI)

Yağan, Mehmet and Musellim, Serkan and Arslan, Suayb S. and Çakar, Tuna and Alp, Nihan and Özkan, Hüseyin (2023) "A new benchmark dataset for P300 ERP-based BCI applications", Digital Signal Processing, Vol.135 (SCI)

Alp, Nihan and Özkan, Hüseyin (2022) "Neural correlates of integration processes during dynamic face perception", Scientific Reports, Vol.12, No.1 (SCI)

Akay, Selen and Kanero, Junko and Alp, Nihan, "When vision is unreliable: the role of play in supporting children", Handbook of Research on Play Specialism Strategies to Prevent Pediatric Hospitalization Trauma, Perasso, Giulia and Ozturk, Yagmur (eds.), IGI Global, October 2022, 203-239

Alp, Nihan, "Algısal organizasyonda elektroensefalografi ile olay ilişkili ve istikrarlı durum uyarılmış potansiyel kayıtları", Psikolojide Bilişsel ve Davranışsal Süreçlere Deneysel Yaklaşımlar, Ünal, Güneş and Ayhan, İnci (eds.), Türkiye: Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık, April 2021, 183-240

Alp, N., Kohler P. J., Kogo, N., Wagemans, J., Norcia A. M. 2018. “Measuring integration processes in visual symmetry with Frequency-tagged EEG”, Scientific Reports, 8, 6969.

Alp, N., Nikolaev A. R., Wagemans, J., Kogo, N. 2017. “EEG frequency tagging dissociates between neural processing of motion synchrony and human quality of multiple point-light dancers”, Scientific Reports, 7, 44012.

Alp, N., Kogo, N., Van Belle, G., Wagemans, J., Rossion, B. 2016. “Frequency tagging yields an objective neural signature of Gestalt formation”, Brain and Cognition, 104, 15–24.

Vergeer, M., Kogo, N., Nikolaev A. R., Alp, N., Loozen V., Schraepen B., Wagemans J. 2018. “EEG frequency tagging provides a neural signature of holistic shape representations learned during shape categorization”, Vision Research, 152, 91-100.

Kogo, N., Drozdzewska, A., Zaenen, P., Alp, N., Wagemans, J. 2014. “Depth perception of illusory surfaces”, Vision Research, 96, 53-64.