Zuhal Ormanoğlu

• PhD Student at Drexel University

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting individuals worldwide and characterized by deficits in social interaction along with the presence of restricted interest and repetitive behaviors. Despite decades of behavioral research, little is known about the brain mechanisms that influence social behaviors among children...

In this study, we present TURead, an eye movement dataset of silent and oral sentence reading in Turkish, an agglutinative language with a shallow orthography understudied in reading research. TURead provides empirical data to investigate the relationship between morphology and oculomotor control. We employ a target-word approach in which target wo...

This study investigates prefrontal cortex (PFC) activation patterns during executive control tasks in children with Down syndrome (DS) compared to typically developing (TD) children using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS).

We introduce the Turkish Emotion-Voice Database (TurEV-DB), which involves a corpus of over 1735 tokens based on 82 words uttered by human subjects in four different emotions (angry, calm, happy, sad). The speech data were produced by amateur actors, checked by assessors, recorded, and preprocessed by a denoising procedure. An emotion corpus was co...

Eye Movements in Turkish Reading; Silent Reading; Oral Reading; Perceptual Span; Parafoveal Processing