Aysu Erdemir
Graduate Student
Research Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
My main interest area is how perception and action are linked together and act as a coordinated system. Specifically I am interested in sensory-motor coordination and the feedback mechanisms underlying skilled motor actions. Currently I am investigating singing under varying feedback mechanisms for skilled audio-motor control of pitch and timing. Another area I am working on is the relationship between music & movement. Using a computational modeling approach I am investigating the relationship between expressive timing in music and the laws of physical motion in the real world. Finally, another line of my research is concerned with using immersive virtual environments to study spatio-motor tasks within an environment that allows sensory perturbations so that the perception-action linkage can be broken and explored. Through series of both real and virtual world experiments, we explore the kinematics of throwing motions under conditions of restricted or altered visual feedback. In line with this, my interest concentrates on exploring the parity and differences between actions that are self-performed and observed, in terms of the underlying motor prediction mechanisms and action-effect relations.
Representative Publications
Erdemir, A. & Rieser J. (in prep). Use of Auditory and Motor Information to Sing a Familiar Tune as a Function of Musical Training
Lin, Q., Xie, X., Erdemir, A., Narasimham, G., Mcnamara, T., Rieser, J., & Bodenheimer, B. (2011). Egocentric Distance Perception in Real and HMD-based Virtual Environments: the Effect of Limited Scanning Method. Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV), Toulouse, France
Mcmanus, E., Lin, Q., Erdemir, A., Bailey, S., Rieser, J., & Bodenheimer, B. (2011). Perceiving Alterations in Trajectories while Throwing in a Virtual Environment. Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV), Toulouse, France
Conference Presentations
Erdemir, A., Simpson, J., Verheggen, G., and Rieser, J. (2010) Effects of auditory feedback disruption on singing remembered tunes. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, August 23-27, Seattle, WA.
Erdemir, A., Erdemir, E., and Rieser, J. (2010) A kinematic model for perceived musical tempo. Talk given at the Biennial meeting of International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, August 23-27, Seattle, WA.
Narasimham, G., Erdemir, A., Rieser, J., Lappin J., and Pick H. (2010). Perceiving and controlling actions: Visually perceived distances map onto different forms of throwing as a function of the ball’s weight and constraints on throwing actions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Vision Sciences Society, May 7-12, Naples, FL.
Erdemir, A., Simpson, J., Verheggen, G., and Rieser, J. (2009). Singing without auditory feedback. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Psychonomic Society, November 19–22, Boston, MA.
Erdemir, A., Erdemir, E., and Rieser, J. (2009) A perception-action model for similarities in perceived musical tempo and the kinematics of physical action. Talk given at the biennial meeting of Society for Music Perception and Cognition, August 3-7, Indianapolis, IN.
Rieser, J., Narasimham, G., Westerman, C., Capucilli, P., and Erdemir, A. (2009). Visually perceived distances map onto different forms of throwing for adults and children. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Vision Sciences Society, May 8-13, Naples, FL.