Epernicus: Ayse Pinar Saygin

Ayse Pinar Saygin

Position:
Assistant Professor

University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA)
Degrees:
Past Advisors:

Jon Driver (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Geraint Rees (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Nina Dronkers (as Visiting Student)

Hiroshi Ishiguro (as Visiting Faculty)

Marty Sereno (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

Elizabeth Bates (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
Research:
Other Experience:
2004 Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience

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Ayse Saygin's Publications (26)

Normal form from biological motion despite impaired ventral stream function.
Gilaie-Dotan S, Bentin S, Harel M, Rees G, Saygin AP

Neuropsychologia. 2011 Jan 13
Distributed processing and cortical specialization for speech and environmental sounds in human temporal cortex.
Leech R, Saygin AP

Brain and language. 2010 Dec 15
Modulation of BOLD response in motion-sensitive lateral temporal cortex by real and fictive motion sentences.
Saygin AP, McCullough S, Alac M, Emmorey K

Journal of cognitive neuroscience. 2010 Nov;22(11):2480-90
Nonverbal auditory agnosia with lesion to Wernicke's area.
Saygin AP, Leech R, Dick F

Neuropsychologia. 2010 Jan;48(1):107-13
The neural correlates of visuospatial perceptual and oculomotor extrapolation.
Tibber M, Saygin AP, Grant S, Melmoth D, Rees G, Morgan M

PloS one. 2010;5(3):e9664
Unaffected perceptual thresholds for biological and non-biological form-from-motion perception in autism spectrum conditions.
Saygin AP, Cook J, Blakemore SJ

PloS one. 2010;5(10):e13491
Reduced sensitivity to minimum-jerk biological motion in autism spectrum conditions.
Cook J, Saygin AP, Swain R, Blakemore SJ

Neuropsychologia. 2009 Dec;47(14):3275-8
Infants' recognition of meaningful verbal and nonverbal sounds.
Cummings A, Saygin AP, Bates E, Dick F

Language learning and development : the official journal of the Society for Language Development. 2009 Jul 1;5(3):172-190
Retinotopy and attention in human occipital, temporal, parietal, and frontal cortex.
Saygin AP, Sereno MI

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 2008 Sep;18(9):2158-68
A developmental ERP study of verbal and non-verbal semantic processing.
Cummings A, Ceponiene R, Dick F, Saygin AP, Townsend J

Brain research. 2008 May 7;1208:137-49
In the footsteps of biological motion and multisensory perception: judgments of audiovisual temporal relations are enhanced for upright walkers.
Saygin AP, Driver J, de Sa VR

Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS. 2008 May;19(5):469-75
Superior temporal and premotor brain areas necessary for biological motion perception.
Saygin AP

Brain : a journal of neurology. 2007 Sep;130(Pt 9):2452-61
Lesion correlates of conversational speech production deficits.
Borovsky A, Saygin AP, Bates E, Dronkers N

Neuropsychologia. 2007 Jun 18;45(11):2525-33
What is involved and what is necessary for complex linguistic and nonlinguistic auditory processing: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging and lesion data.
Dick F, Saygin AP, Galati G, Pitzalis S, Bentrovato S, D'Amico S, Wilson S, Bates E, Pizzamiglio L

Journal of cognitive neuroscience. 2007 May;19(5):799-816
Smoothing and cluster thresholding for cortical surface-based group analysis of fMRI data.
Hagler DJ, Saygin AP, Sereno MI

NeuroImage. 2006 Dec;33(4):1093-103
Auditory semantic networks for words and natural sounds.
Cummings A, Ceponiene R, Koyama A, Saygin AP, Townsend J, Dick F

Brain research. 2006 Oct 18;1115(1):92-107
An on-line task for contrasting auditory processing in the verbal and nonverbal domains and norms for younger and older adults.
Saygin AP, Dick F, Bates E

Behavior research methods. 2005 Feb;37(1):99-110
Analyzing aphasia data in a multidimensional symptom space.
Bates E, Saygin AP, Moineau S, Marangolo P, Pizzamiglio L

Brain and language. 2005 Feb;92(2):106-16
Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech production.
Wilson SM, Saygin AP, Sereno MI, Iacoboni M

Nature neuroscience. 2004 Jul;7(7):701-2
Point-light biological motion perception activates human premotor cortex.
Saygin AP, Wilson SM, Hagler DJ, Bates E, Sereno MI

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2004 Jul 7;24(27):6181-8
Grammaticality judgment in aphasia: deficits are not specific to syntactic structures, aphasic syndromes, or lesion sites.
Wilson SM, Saygin AP

Journal of cognitive neuroscience. 2004 Mar;16(2):238-52
Language in an embodied brain: the role of animal models.
Dick F, Saygin AP, Moineau S, Aydelott J, Bates E

Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior. 2004 Feb;40(1):226-7
Action comprehension in aphasia: linguistic and non-linguistic deficits and their lesion correlates.
Saygin AP, Wilson SM, Dronkers NF, Bates E

Neuropsychologia. 2004;42(13):1788-804
Quantifying dissociations in neuropsychological research.
Bates E, Appelbaum M, Salcedo J, Saygin AP, Pizzamiglio L

Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology. 2003 Dec;25(8):1128-53
Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping.
Bates E, Wilson SM, Saygin AP, Dick F, Sereno MI, Knight RT, Dronkers NF

Nature neuroscience. 2003 May;6(5):448-50

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