- asaygin@ucsd.edu
- (858) 822-1994
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9500 Gilman Dr
SSRB 202-208
Mail Code: 0515
La Jolla , California 92093
Ayse P. Saygin
Associate Professor
- Research Interests
- Selected Publications
Research Interests
Cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, neuroimaging, visual perception, attention, multisensory integration, biological motion, social neuroscience, language comprehension, human-machine interaction, social robotics.
Selected Publications
Saygin, A.P., Chaminade, T., Ishiguro, H., Driver, J. & Frith, C. (2012) The thing that should not be: Predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, 7(4):413-22.
van Kemenade, B.M., Muggleton, N., Walsh, V., Saygin, A.P. (2012) The Effects of TMS over STS and Premotor Cortices on the Perception of Biological Motion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 24(4): 896–904.
Miller, L.E. & Saygin, A.P. (2013) Intersubject variability in the perception of biological motion: Links to social cognition and motor imagery. Cognition, 128(2): 140-8.
Saygin, A.P. & Sereno, M.I. (2008) Retinotopy and attention in human occipital, temporal, parietal and frontal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 18(9): 2158-68.
Saygin, A.P. (2007) Superior temporal and premotor brain areas necessary for biological motion perception. Brain, 130: 2452-2461.
Faculty
- Steven Barrera
- Anne Beatty-Martínez
- Benjamin Bergen
- Lera Boroditsky
- Andrea Chiba
- Seana Coulson
- Sarah Creel
- Virginia de Sa
- Gedeon Deák
- Steven Dow
- Shannon Ellis
- Jason Fleischer
- Deanna Greene
- Philip Guo
- Jim Hollan
- Terry L. Jernigan
- Meenakshi Khosla
- David Kirsh
- Anastasia Kiyonaga
- Scott Klemmer
- Eran Mukamel
- Douglas A. Nitz
- Lara Rangel
- Federico Rossano
- Ayse P. Saygin
- Sean Trott
- Zhuowen Tu
- Bradley Voytek
- Drew E. Walker
- Haijun Xia
- Martin Zettersten