Hamid Türker

Hamid Türker

Postdoc studying perception, memory, and decision-making systems

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In Brief

I currently work as a postdoctoral associate in the Smith Lab. Prior to this, I completed my PhD work in the AMP Lab under the supervision of Prof. Khena Swallow at Cornell. I have also worked as a research trainee at the Harvard Medical School (studying how auditory cues impact visual search), as a visiting student research collaborator at Princeton (studying the relationship between cognitive effort and model-based versus model-free reinforcement learning), and as a research assistant at Leiden University supported through the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (studying the developmental trajectory of decision-making mechanisms in the brain in childhood and adolescence). Since 2017, I have also been the assistant curator of Cornell’s famous Wilder Brain Collection, a volunteer position through which I regularly organize science outreach events for kids and adolescents in upstate New York.

Education

Research Appointments

Publications

In Progress:

Turker, H. B., & Smith, D. M. (under review). Prelimbic Medial Prefrontal Cortex Differentiates Match from Non-Match and Signals Various Behavioral Events

Turker, H. B., & Smith, D. M. (in prep). Changes in Prefrontal and Hippocampal Power, Phase-Clustering, and Granger Prediction Unfold in a Sequence Time-Locked to Behaviorally-Relevant Events

Wu, W. Turker, H. B., Fang, J., Cleland, T. A., Linster, C., & Smith, D. M. (in prep). Neuronal Responses in the Anterior Olfactory Nucleus During a Complex Odor Memory Task

Turker, H. B., & Colcombe, S., & Swallow, K. M. (in revision). Shared and Unshared Contributions of LC and VTA to Static Functional Connectivity

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

Riley, E., Turker, H. B., Swallow, K., De Rosa, E., & Anderson, A. (2024). Nonlinear changes in pupillary attentional orienting responses across the lifespan. GeroScience, 46, 1017-1033

Richie-Halford, A. Cieslak, M., Ai, L., Caffarra, S., Covitz, S., Franco, A.R., Karipidis, I., Kruper, J., Milham, M., Avelar-Pereira, B., Roy, E., Sydnor, V.J., Yeatman, J.D., The Fibr Community Science Consortium, Satterthwaite, T.D., & Rokem, A. (2022). An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research, Scientific Data, 9, 616

Swallow, K. M., Broitman, A. W., Riley, E., & Turker, H. B. (2022). Grounding the attentional boost effect in events and the efficient brain., Frontiers in Psychology, 3842

Turker, H. B. & Swallow, K. M. (2022). Diffusion Decision Modeling of Intentional and Incidental Temporal Selection of Behaviorally Relevant Moments., Computational Brain & Behavior, 5, 302-325

Moyal, R., Turker, H. B., Luh, W.-M., & Swallow, K. M. (2022). Auditory target detection enhances visual processing and hippocampal functional connectivity, Frontiers in Psychology, _13, 891682

Turker, H. B., Riley, E., Luh, W.-M., Colcombe, S., & Swallow, K. M. (2021). Estimates of locus coeruleus function with functional magnetic resonance imaging are influenced by localization approaches and the use of multi-echo data. Neuroimage, 236, 118047.

Turker, H. B. & Swallow, K. M. (2019). Attending to Behaviorally Relevant Moments Enhances Incidental Relational Memory. Memory & Cognition, 47(1), 1-16. doi: 10.3758/s13421-018-0846-0

Book chapters:

Nolte, J., & Turker, H. B. (2023). Involving older adults in the data analysis process. In A. Urbania & A. Wanka (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of participatory approaches in ageaing research. Routledge, London

Nolte, J., & Turker, H. B. (2021). Teaching students how to effectively take notes. In K. Armstrong, L. Genova, J. W. Greenlee, & D. Samuel (Eds.), Teaching gradually: Practical pedagogy for graduate students, by graduate students. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing

Conference Posters & Presentations

Turker, H. B., Bulkin, D., & Smith, D. M. (2023). Medial Prefrontal Cortical Neurons Differentiate Match and Non-Match Cues in a Continuous Olfactory Match-to-Sample Task. Poster at Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C.

Wu, W., Turker, H. B., Fang, J., Cleland, T. A., Linster, C., & Smith, D. M. (2023). Neuronal Responses in the Anterior Olfactory Nucleus During a Complex Odor Memory Task. Poster at Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C.

Turker, H. B., Colcombe, S., & Swallow, K. M. (2022, April). Shared and Unshared Contributions of LC and VTA to Static Functional Connectivity. Poster at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.

Nolte, J., & Turker, H. B. (2021, November). Involving older adults in the data analysis process. Talk at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (virtual).

Riley, E., Cicero, N., Turker, H. B., Swallow, K. M., De Rosa, E., & Anderson, A. (2021, June). Multimodal Evidence for the Use of Pupillary Responses for Evaluating Cognitive Aging in Locus Coeruleus. Poster at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (virtual).

Turker, H. B., Moyal, R., & Swallow, K. M. (2021, May). Drift Diffusion Modeling of Intentional and Incidental Temporal Selection of Behaviorally RelevantMoments. Poster at Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Florida (virtual).

Turker, H. B. & Swallow, K. M. (2020, August). Diffusion Decision Modeling of Incidental Relational Memory for Behaviorally Relevant Moments. Poster at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (virtual).

Broitman, A. W., Turker, H. B., Swallow, K. M. (2020, August). Attending to Behaviorally Relevant Events Disrupts EEG Spectral Subsequent Memory Effects. Poster at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (virtual).

Turker, H. B., Riley, E., Luh, W.-M., Colcombe, S., & Swallow, K. M. (2020, June). Multi-echo fMRI and Localization Method Affect Functional Estimates of the Locus Coeruleus. Poster at Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Montreal, Canada (virtual).

Riley, E., Turker, H. B., Swallow, K., De Rosa, E., & Anderson, A. (2019, October). Measuring Age-Related Changes in Locus Coeruleus Intensity and its Relationship to Cognitive Aging. Poster at Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, Illinois

Broitman, A. W., Turker, H. B., & Swallow, K. M. (2019, May). The P300 Predicts Subsequent Biomarkers of Recollection and Familiarity. Poster at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Turker, H. B. & Swallow, K. M. (2018, November). Increasing Attention to Behaviorally Relevant Moments Facilitates Incidental Relational Memory. Poster at Object Perception, Attention, & Memory, New Orleans, Louisiana

Moyal. R., Turker, H. B., Phelps, A., Luh, W.-M., & Swallow, K. M. (2018, November). Behaviorally Relevant Events Modulate Hippocampal Representations and Functional Connectivity. Poster at Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California.

Turker, H. B., Phelps, A., Moyal, R., Swallow, K. M. (2017, August). Auditory Targets Boost Contextual Memory and Increase Repetition Suppression in the Hippocampus. Poster presented at 13th International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Turker, H. B., Swallow, K. M. (2017, May). Relational memory is enhanced in the attentional boost effect. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Florida.

Swallow, K. M., Turker, H. B., Moyal, R., Li, G. (2016, November). Attending to auditory targets enhances visual perceptual processing in ventral visual cortex. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California.

IMG_6797 With the Smith Lab at SfN ‘23 in Washington DC

Awards and Honors

Service and leadership

Teaching

Self-designed Courses

Teaching Assistant