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Dr. Özlem Sensoy

Postdoctoral researcher

 

 

Contact

 

Tel.: +49 (0) 641 / 99 26067 (office)

Tel.: +49 (0) 641 / 99 26061 (secretariat)

Fax: +49 (0) 641 / 99 26079 (secretariat)

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Room F 110

Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

University department 06, Psychology and sport science

Department of Developmental Psychology

Otto-Behaghel-Strasse 10 F

35394 Giessen

 

 

Research area

 

  • Perception and processing of real objects (3D) and depictions of those (2D) in infancy
  • Perception and processing of familiar size/ real-world size in infancy
  • Perceptual narrowing in speech and face processing during infancy and childhood
  • social-emotional child development and parental stress during Covid-19 Pandemic

 

 

Memberships and Committees

 

  • Representative of early career researches of the speaker group Developmental Psychology of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs)
  • Member of the Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB)

 

 

Curriculum vitae

 

  • 12/2020: Doctorate, Dr. rer. nat., Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
  • Since 12/2019: PhD Student within the Research Unit Crossing (FG 2253)
  • 09/2018 - 03/2019: 6 months research stay at Jody Culham's Lab at the Brain and Mind Institute of The University of Western Ontario in London, ON, Canada
  • 12/2016 – 11/2019: PhD Student within the International Research Training Group (IRTG) 1901 “The Brain in Action” 
  • 10/2014 – 11/2016: Studies of Psychology at the Saarland University, Degree Awarded: M.Sc.
  • 10/2013 – 05/2017: Studies of Philosophy/Literatur at Saarland University, Degree Awarded: B.A
  • 10/2009 – 09/2013: Studies of Psychology at the University of Saarland, Degree Awarded: B.Sc.
  • 08/2011 – 09/2016: Research Assistant at the Department of Developmental Psychology, Saarland University

 

 

Publications:

 

Linka, M., Sensoy, Ö., Karimpur, H., Schwarzer, G., & de Haas, Benjamin. Free viewing biases for complex scenes in preschoolers and adults. Sci Rep, 13, 11803 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38854-8

 

Dillmann, J.*, Sensoy, Ö.*, & Schwarzer, G. (2022). Parental perceived stress and its consequences on early social-emotional child development during COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Early Childhood Research. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1476718X221083423
*shared first authorship

 

Sensoy, Ö., Culham, J.C., & Schwarzer, G. (2021). The Advantage of Real Objects over Matched Pictures in Infants' Processing of the Familiar Size of Objects. Infant and Child Development, 30(4), July/August 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2234

 

Sensoy, Ö., Culham, J.C. & Schwarzer, G. (2020). Do infants show knowledge of the familiar size of everyday objects?. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Volume 195, July 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104848

 

Conference Contributions:

 

Sensoy, Ö., & Schwarzer G. (2023). The influence of object format on object size processing in infancy. Fachgruppentagung Entwicklungspsychologie (EPSY) in Berlin, Germany (presentation at the self-organized symposium Developing models of objects in the world - The early foundations of object processing in infancy).

Dillmann, J.*, Sensoy, Ö*. & Schwarzer, G. (2023). Covid-19: A risk factor for parental well-being and early social-emotional development. Fachgruppentagung Entwicklungspsychologie (EPSY) in Berlin, Germany (*joint presentation in the symposium Influence & Risk Factors of Early Childhood Development).

Sensoy, Ö., Krasotkina, A., Götz, A., Höhle, B., & Schwarzer, G. (2023).Interactions between face identity and speech processing in 5-year-olds and adults. Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2023 Biennial Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (Flash Talk, online). 

Sensoy, Ö, Dillmann, J., & Schwarzer, G. (2022). Auswirkungen der COVID-19 Pandemie auf das elterliche Stressemfinden sowie die frühkindliche sozial-emotionale Entwicklung [The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on parental perceivend stress and early social-emotional development]. 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie [52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society] (DGPs) in Hildesheim (Poster).

Linka, M., Sensoy, Ö., Karimpur, H., Schwarzer, G., & de Haas, B. (2022). Attentional bias in pre-schoolers freely viewing complex scenes. 47th Annual Conference of "Psychology and Brain" (PuG) 2022 (Talk).

Dillmann, J., Sensoy, Ö. & Schwarzer, G. (2021). Elterliche Belastung und frühkindliche sozial-emotionale Entwicklung während der Corona-Pandemie (Parental perceived stress and social-emotional child development during COVID-19 pandemic). digiGEBF 2021 (Talk).

Sensoy, Ö., Culham, J.C. & Schwarzer, G. (2021). Real, tangible objects enhance the processing of familiar size in infancy. 2021 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Virtual Biennial (Poster).

Dillmann, J., Sensoy, Ö. & Schwarzer, G. (2021). Parental perceived stress and social-emotional child development during COVID-19 pandemic. 2021 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Virtual Biennial (Poster).

Sensoy, Ö., Culham, J.C., & Schwarzer, G. (2020). How Different Conditions Contribute to Familiar Size Knowledge of Common Objects in 7- and 12-Month-Olds. Virtual International Congress of Infant Studies (vICIS) 2020 (Poster).

Sensoy, Ö., Culham, J. C. & Schwarzer G. (2019). Only Real Objects, But Not Photographs Enhance Infants’ Understanding of the Familiar Size of Objects. Fachgruppentagung Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie (PAEPSY) in Leipzig, Deutschland (Poster).

Sensoy, Ö., Culham, J.C. & Schwarzer, G. (2019). Real Objects and Visual-Manual Exploration Enhance Infants' Understanding of Object Size. 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Baltimore, Maryland, USA (Poster).

Sensoy, Ö., Culham, J.C. & Schwarzer, G. (2018). 7- and 12-month-old infants' understanding of the true size of objects in visual and visual-manual contexts. 51st Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Frankfurt, Germany (Poster).

Sensoy, Ö., Culham, J.C. & Schwarzer, G. (2018). Do infants understand the true size of familiar objects? XXI International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) 2018 Biennial Congress, Philadelphia, USA (Poster).

Sensoy, Ö., Culham, J.C. & Schwarzer, G. (2018). The true size of a familiar object influences 12-month-old infants’ visual preferences. 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Marburg, Germany (Poster).