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Ozge Gezer

Ms Ozge Gezer

Research student

School of Psychology

Overview

Research Summary 

My primary research interest is to understand neural mechanisms of social cognition and emotional processing in children, especially children with behavioural and emotional problems. My masters project was based on a coordinate based meta-analysis of embarrassment, a self-conscious emotion that requires social cognitive abilities such as mentalizing, social norm processing.

Undergraduate Education

Psychology, Koç University 2017; Law, Koç University, 2018

Postgraduate Education

MSc in Neuroimaging, Cardiff University, 2020

Research

Research interests – Social cognition, emotion processing, fMRI, at-risk children

My primary research interest is to understand neural mechanisms of social cognition and emotional processing in children, especially children with behavioural and emotional problems. My masters project was based on a coordinate based meta-analysis of embarrassment, a self-conscious emotion that requires social cognitive abilities such as mentalizing, social norm processing.

Thesis

Identifying biomarkers of social cognition in an at-risk sample of young children