EWCN Prize
Winners for 2021
Seda Akbiyik
“Shared and distinct neural representations of human-agent actions and inanimate events"
Seda Akbyik is a PhD Student in the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory at Harvard working with Professor Alfonso Caramazza. During her graduate research, she focuses on how our knowledge of objects and actions is represented in the brain and mind, by using a combination of behavioral, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological techniques. She holds a Master’s in Cognitive Psychology from Koc University, Turkey. Prior to her PhD, she studied a range of topics including language and conceptual development, gesture and language production in people with brain damage, and the neural mechanisms underlying categorical color perception.
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Rolando Bonandrini
“A behavioural and structural disconnectome study of implicit reading in pure alexia.”
Rolando Bonandrini is completing his PhD in Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He obtained a master’s degree in Clinical, Developmental and NeuroPsychology. His main research interests involve functional brain lateralization, cognitive and neural substrates of reading, and bilingualism. During his PhD, he focused on the lexical orthographic abilities of the right cerebral hemispheres, by combining neuropsychological, behavioural, eye-tracking, neuroimaging, and computational techniques.
Bonandrini-Candidate-New-EWCN-Prize.pdf