A.P. Saygin

Ayse Pinar Saygin (Born 197?) is a cognitive scientist at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. She completed her PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego with Professors Elizabeth Bates and Marty Sereno. She carried out postdoctoral research with Professors Jon Driver and Geraint Rees.

Saygin's research uses neuroimaging and neuropsychology to study how people are able to perceive, understand and process each others' body movements.

Dr Saygin has also worked on artifical intelligence, notably the Turing Test.

Dr Saygin's current research combines work in neuroscience and artificial intelligence to address how humans perceive and react to robotic agents (see also android science)

Selected Publications

Saygin, A.P. (2007) Superior temporal and premotor brain areas necessary for biological motion perception. Brain 130, 2452-2461.

Saygin, A.P. & Cicekli, I. (2002) Pragmatics in human-computer conversation. Journal of Pragmatics, 34, (3), 227-258.

Saygin, A.P., et al. (2000) Turing Test: 50 years later. Minds and Machines 10(4), 463-518.

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