At the Sensory Processes Lab, we study how people perceive and explore the material world through vision, touch, sound, and language. Our research focuses on multisensory material perception, active exploration, sound symbolism, and the perceptual and cognitive processes that allow us to recognize the properties of objects, surfaces, and spaces. 

Across behavioral experiments, psychophysics, immersive technologies, and neuroimaging-informed approaches, we investigate questions such as how softness, roughness, and shape are perceived; how verbal and non-verbal auditory cues influence material experience; and how perception is shaped by action, expectation, memory, and culture. Recent work includes studies on audiovisual material perception, Turkish sound-symbolism, haptic and visual exploration, affordance, and associative recognition memory. 

Our lab’s current research is supported by national and international projects, including the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network EXPLORA (2026–2030), separate TÜBİTAK 1001 projects on the augmentative role of auditory and visual signals in haptic material perception, and on visual-haptic material perception through sound symbolism.

You can find us either at the Social Sciences Building or at the Research Centre. 

If you're interested in pursuing a graduate degree or conducting postdoctoral research in the lab, feel free to reach out via email at dicled@.... Before applying, be sure to check the eligibility criteria to see if you qualify.