Banu Cangoz

• Professor
• Professor (Full) at Hacettepe University

Introduction: Prospective memory is a robust predictor of functional capacity among older adults. Studies examining prospective memory and aging have suggested that prospective memory deficits are associated with aging. Although the impairment of prospective memory processes is mostly attributed to the impairment of the monitoring process, contradi...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine the developmental stages-specific normative values of Trial Making Test (TMT), Enhanced Cued Recall Test (ECRT) and Clock Drawing Test (CDT) which are commonly used in adults for the evaluation of cognitive functions affected by psychiatric and neurological diseases and developmental disorders f...

The Auditory Consonant Trigram (ACT) Test is accepted as a pure measurement of verbal working memory, but its norm study and psychometric properties have not been sufficiently researched. This study aims to update the norm data of the ACT, validity and reliability studies of which have been previously conducted on an adult Turkish sample, on a broa...

Amaç: Bu çalışmanın iki temel amacı vardır: 1) İleriye Dönük Bellekteki (İDB) ve Stratejik İzleme sürecindeki yaşa bağlı değişiklikleri göz izleme yöntemi kullanarak incelemek 2) Olay temelli (OT-İDB) ve Zaman temelli İleriye Dönük Bellek (ZT-İDB) görevlerinde çevresel ipuçlarının stratejik izleme performansı üzerindeki etkisini incelemek. Yöntem:...

Amaç: Diş hekimi ve tedavisine duyulan kaygı insanların sahip olduğu psikolojik durumlardan birisi olarak kabul edilmektedir. Kaygılı hastalarda diş hekimliği işlemlerinin gerçekleştirilmesi hem hasta konforu hem de hekimin işlevselliği ve verimi açısından güçlük yaratmaktadır. Bu çalışmada dental implant cerrahisi planlanan hastalarda kaygı düzeyi...

The impact of education and expertise in art on the process of examining a work of art has been studied in the present study via eye tracking method. The main purpose of the study was to compare a group of experts and non-experts in art with regard to eye tracking measurements, artwork analyses and recall performance. In this research, expert and n...

Objective: The main objective is to examine the effect of the congruency of different prime modalities (visual and aural) and facial emotion in the facial affect decision task (FADT) in the autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Method: Experiment-1 was carried out with 13 children with ASD (x̄age = 8.23, SD = 1.87) and 15 control (x̄age = 9.00, SD = 1.81...

Objective: Endogenous attention (EnA) is an ability in goal-driven processes, controlled by top-down mechanisms and exogenous attention (ExA) is an ability in stimulus-driven processes, controlled by bottomup mechanisms. In the present research, it was aimed to investigate in Alzheimer's disease (AD) the EnA and ExA processes in relation to target...

Objective: Inattentional blindness (IB) refers to an observer's failure to notice unexpected stimulus. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the priming type (perceptual, conceptual, and no priming) and emotional context (positive, negative, neutral) on IB with behavioral (IB, non-IB) and eye tracking measurements (latency of fir...

Introduction: This study was aimed to create a set of photographs including human faces with neutral expression and different levels of attractiveness that can be utilized scientifically by different disciplines and for different scopes. Methods: In total, 186 students (120 females, 66 males) volunteered to be photographed in passport style with...

Introduction: Math skills are essential in academic, occupational, and scientific areas as well as in daily life activities. There are two existing models in screening dyscalculia: IQ-Achievement Discrepancy Model (DM), and Response to Instruction (RTI) model. In these models, two different cut-off based criteria (being 1 or 2 standard deviation b...

Introduction: The main purpose of this research is develop the Turkish version of the BNT long form (consist of 60 items) [BNT-60 (TR)] and to determine the normative data for Turkish healthy geriatric population. BNT is a neuropsychological test which was widely used to measure naming disorders associated with a variety of neuropathological event...

Emotional working memory (EWM) is suggested as a working memory (WM) type, distinguished to process emotional stimuli, and may or may not be spared in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The aim was to compare patients with AD and healthy older adults (HC) on verbal EWM performance and accompanying prefrontal cortex activity. Twenty AD patients along with 20...

Objective: Emotions are complex psychophysiological changes experienced during the interactions of internal and external processes. The stimuli that have emotional value have processing efficiency both in encoding and retrieval processes with respect to the neutral stimuli. Processing advantage is present also for implicit memory. Priming effect d...

The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of the emotional content of an event and participants' perspective on the memory and eye-tracking measurements for central and peripheral details. The data have been collected from 130 undergraduate male students (18- 33 ages). Three series of seven different emotional thematic photogra...

The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of the emotional content of an event and participants’ perspective on the memory and eye-track measurements for central and peripheral details. Event memory refers the memory for details about an event itself. The type of remembered details of an event can differ according to emotional...

Emotional enhancement of memory (EEM) has been a well-known phenomenon which corresponds to the advantage of emotional stimuli to be better recalled than neutral ones. Previous studies suggest that aging favours recollection of positive items and this pattern is disrupted in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Emotional valence of different stimulus modaliti...

The main objective of the study is to investigate the effects of age of model, gender of ob-server, and lateralization on visual screening patterns while looking at the emotional facial expressions. Data were collected through eye tracking methodology. The areas of interests were set to include eyes, nose and mouth. The selected eye metrics were fi...

Mathematical skills are becoming increasingly critical for achieving academic and professional success. Developmental dyscalculia (DD) is a childhood-onset disorder characterized by the presence of abnormalities in the acquisition of arithmetic skills affecting approximately 5% of school age children. Diagnosing students with possible dyscalculia t...

Introduction: The objective of this study is to investigate effects of testing time and emotional valence of words on implicit and explicit memory in young and elderly individuals. Materials and Method: After valence words were presented to 240 subjects composed of adolescents (11-14), early adults (25-25) and elderly people (65 and above) performa...

Introduction: The Trail Making Test is a widely used test that assesses executive functions such as visual tracking, psychomotor speed, complex attention and mental flexibility. The main aim of this study is to evaluate the validity of the TMT in AD patients. Materials and Method: The study group covers 50 subjects with AD and 50 healthy subjects....

In mathematics, one of the specific learning disabilities is developmental dyscalculia (DD). It is reported that around 5% of school age children is affected with DD. Diagnosing students with possible dyscalculic tendencies and giving them relevant extra learning opportunities based on their specific difficulties are utmost importance for them to g...

Navigation in web-based environments is one of the challenging tasks for hypertext readers. During reading, hypertext readers are reported to allocate their cognitive resources to meet the cognitive demands and are often reported to get disoriented while navigating through hyperlinks. Meanwhile, readers' understanding of hypertext structures and me...

The purpose of this study was to assess whether a computerized battery of neuropsychological tests could produce similar results as the conventional forms. Comparisons on 77 volunteer undergraduates were carried out with two neuropsychological tests: Line Orientation Test and Enhanced Cued Recall Test. Firstly, students were assigned randomly acros...

Introduction: The purpose of this research is to compare general cognitive functions, memory, depression level and daily living activities which are sensitive tests and/or scales on patients with ATD, depression, patients under physical therapy and rehabilitation (PMR) and healthy elderly participants. Materials and Method: The data have been colle...

Introduction: The main purpose of this research was to compare patients having ATD or MCI with each other and with healthy elderly participants (control group) in relation to several neuropsychological tests sensitive to memory, attention, and executive functions. The secondary aim was to conduct a pilot study to evaluate whether it is possible to...

Introduction: The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of the instruction type (implicit vs explicit), testing time (immediate vs delay) and concreteness level of the words (concrete vs abstract) on word-stem completion scores. Materials and Method: The data has been collected from 95 volunteers; 49 young and 46 elderly adults...

The Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) has been used as a measure of cognitive decline in different cultures. The purpose of the study was to establish the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of IQCODE (IQCODE-T) and the ability of the questionnaire to distinguish between older adults with DSM-IV-TR dem...

Introduction: The MOCA is a screening device used to assess attention and concentration, executive functions, memory, language, visuo-spatial abilities, abstract thinking, calculation, and orientation domains. The main aim of this study is to carry out a cultural adaptation study and to evaluate the predictive validity of the MOCA in Turkish Mild C...

We aimed to compare the effects of an low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol level of <70 mg/dL versus the goal of <100 mg/dL using simvastatin or atorvastatin on cognition. In this open-label trial, patients with diabetes were randomly assigned to simvastatin or atorvastatin 10 mg. If LDL-cholesterol levels, monitored at 30-day intervals, were...

Trail Making Test (TMT) is a neuropsychological test, which has parts A and B that can precisely measure executive functions, like complex visual-motor conceptual screening, planning, organization, abstract thinking and response inhibition. The main purpose of this study is to standardize TMT for Turkish adults and/or elderly population. This study...

The word of aging describes the changes in the person and continuation of development in the late period of the life. Aging is accompanimented by some cognitive and emotional changes. Biological and socio-cultural dynamics were important factors in shaping cognitive aging. Therefore, researchers have moved from an approach of the potential and limi...

Implicit memory, defined as the recollection of knowledge unconsciously, automatically, and without being aware of it, is different than explicit memory, in which knowledge is recollected consciously, while being aware of it. In the present study, the implicit memory performance of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's type...

Introduction: The main purpose of this study, a neuropsychological test called Trail Making Test (TMT), is made standardize for Turkish adults and/or elderlys. TMT (A-B Parts) measured to executive functions like complex visual-motor conceptual screening, planning, organization, abstract thinking, response inhibiton. This research consist of two ma...

Aim: The main purpose of this study, a test of Clock Drawing (CDT), classified also as a neuropsychological device is made suitable and standardize for Turkish adults and/or elderlys. The screening test is called Clock Drawing (4 point scoring method) measured to executive functions like planning, organization, reconstruction. Materials and Methods...

In two experiments I investigated the nature of implicit memory test, anagram solution, by manipulating several variables during the study phase. In Experiment 1, the effects of solution type (single vs. multiple), and study type (physical orienting vs. semantic orienting vs. control) on an anagram solution test were examined. Results of an ANOVA r...

Long before psychology became a separate scientific dicipline, many philosophers delved into the subject of memory and tried to answer the question, "How can we obtain knowledge abo- ut the memory?" Studies in the field of memory have always focused on the subjective and the ob- jective dimensions of memory. The individual's personal history forms...