Psychiatry resident at Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun. I design measurement instruments together with engineering collaborators. I write the software and the models that run on them. I use both to study how the brain decides what to believe.
Residency thesis · BAP04-B-2026-6538 · in preparation
Whether delusions track a failure of belief revision, a failure to attenuate self-generated sensation, or both. Beads task modelled with the Hierarchical Gaussian Filter, alongside a force-matching task run on a device built for the study. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Gökhan Sarısoy; registration pending.
In design · protocol
Restlessness that drives movement, and movement that does not relieve it. An active inference account of why. A concept note with the mechanism and the predictions is in preparation.
In collection
Separating fatigue from depression in MS by modelling effort-based decisions, in collaboration with the Department of Neurology.
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