Seda Akbiyik is a PhD Candidate in the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory. Before coming here, she pursued a Bachelor’s in Psychology at Bogazici University, Turkey and a Master’s in Cognitive Psychology at Koc University, Turkey. In the past, she studied a range of topics including linguistic and conceptual development, gesture and language production in people with brain damage and neural mechanisms underlying categorical color perception. During her graduate research, she aims to explore the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying conceptual representations and language production.