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9527
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8425
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Ayse Pinar Saygin publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ayse Pinar Saygin sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 99 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Ayse Pinar Saygin D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ayse Pinar Saygin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Ayse Pinar Saygin is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with specific contributions to cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, neurology, ophthalmology, and molecular biology.

Their work covers several interrelated topics, including:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Retinal Diseases and Treatments
  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Saygin include:

  • "Visual tests predict dementia risk in Parkinson disease," 2020, published in Neurology Clinical Practice
  • "Predictive processing account of action perception: Evidence from effective connectivity in the action observation network," 2020, published in Cortex
  • "YIELD ESTIMATION OF SUNFLOWER PLANT WITH CNN AND ANN USING SENTINEL-2," 2021, published in The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
  • "Form and Motion in Biological Motion Perception: An Event-related Potential Paradigm," 2020, published in Journal of Vision
  • "The interplay of prior information and motion cues in resolving visual ambiguity in agent perception," 2025, published in Neuropsychologia

Frequent coauthors with whom Saygin has collaborated include:

  • Burcu A. Ürgen
  • Louise-Ann Leyland
  • Fion Bremner
  • Ribeya Mahmood
  • Sam Hewitt

Their work appears in multiple venues, showing a multidisciplinary research approach. Common publication venues include:

  • Neurology Clinical Practice
  • Cortex
  • The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
  • Journal of Vision
  • Neuropsychologia

In recognition of their academic contributions, Saygin was awarded the Hellman Fellow in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Voxel-based lesion–symptom mapping

    Elizabeth Bates;Stephen M. Wilson;Ayse Pinar Saygin;Frederic Dick

  • Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech production.

    Stephen M Wilson;Ayşe Pinar Saygin;Martin I Sereno;Marco Iacoboni

  • Smoothing and cluster thresholding for cortical surface-based group analysis of fMRI data.

    Donald J. Hagler;Ayse Pinar Saygin;Martin I. Sereno

  • Turing Test: 50 Years Later

    Ayse Pinar Saygin;Ilyas Cicekli;Varol Akman

  • The thing that should not be: predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions

    Ayse Pinar Saygin;Thierry Chaminade;Hiroshi Ishiguro;Jon Driver

  • Point-Light Biological Motion Perception Activates Human Premotor Cortex

    Ayse Pinar Saygin;Stephen M. Wilson;Donald J. Hagler;Elizabeth Bates

  • Superior temporal and premotor brain areas necessary for biological motion perception

    Ayse Pinar Saygin

  • Neural resources for processing language and environmental sounds Evidence from aphasia

    Ayse Pinar Saygin;Frederic Dick;Stephen W. Wilson;Nina F. Dronkers

  • Retinotopy and Attention in Human Occipital, Temporal, Parietal, and Frontal Cortex

    Ayse Pinar Saygin;Ayse Pinar Saygin;Ayse Pinar Saygin;Martin I. Sereno;Martin I. Sereno;Martin I. Sereno

  • Action comprehension in aphasia: linguistic and non-linguistic deficits and their lesion correlates.

    Ayşe Pınar Saygın;Stephen M. Wilson;Nina F. Dronkers;Elizabeth Bates

  • Modulation of bold response in motion-sensitive lateral temporal cortex by real and fictive motion sentences

    Ayse Pinar Saygin;Stephen McCullough;Stephen McCullough;Morana Alac;Karen Emmorey;Karen Emmorey

  • Lesion correlates of conversational speech production deficits.

    Arielle Borovsky;Ayse Pinar Saygin;Ayse Pinar Saygin;Elizabeth Bates;Nina Dronkers;Nina Dronkers

  • Auditory semantic networks for words and natural sounds

    A. Cummings;R. Čeponienė;A. Koyama;A.P. Saygin

  • Individual differences in the perception of biological motion: links to social cognition and motor imagery.

    Luke E. Miller;Ayse P. Saygin

  • Effects of tms over premotor and superior temporal cortices on biological motion perception

    Bianca Michelle van Kemenade;Neil Muggleton;Vincent Walsh;Ayse Pinar Saygin

  • Unaffected Perceptual Thresholds for Biological and Non-Biological Form-from-Motion Perception in Autism Spectrum Conditions

    Ayse Pinar Saygin;Jennifer Cook;Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

  • Tool morphology constrains the effects of tool use on body representations.

    Luke E. Miller;Matthew R. Longo;Ayse P. Saygin

  • Grammaticality Judgment in Aphasia: Deficits Are Not Specific to Syntactic Structures, Aphasic Syndromes, or Lesion Sites

    Stephen M. Wilson;Ayşe Pınar Saygın

  • Pragmatics in human-computer conversations*

    Ayse Pinar Saygin;Ilyas Cicekli

  • EEG theta and Mu oscillations during perception of human and robot actions

    Burcu A. Urgen;Markus Plank;Hiroshi Ishiguro;Howard Poizner

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederic Dick
Frederic Dick Birkbeck, University of London
Geraint Rees
Geraint Rees University College London
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego
Stephen M. Wilson
Stephen M. Wilson Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Martin I. Sereno
Martin I. Sereno San Diego State University
Nina F. Dronkers
Nina F. Dronkers University of California, Davis
Matthew R. Longo
Matthew R. Longo Birkbeck, University of London
Bahador Bahrami
Bahador Bahrami Max Planck Society
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Hiroshi Ishiguro Osaka University
Piotr Winkielman
Piotr Winkielman University of California, San Diego

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