Tolgahan Aydinمشاهده پروفایل
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Tolgahan Aydin is a Researcher and PhD student at the Leibniz Institute for Media Education (IWM) and the University of Tübingen, working in the Perception and Action Lab since November 2023. His doctoral research focuses on modal and amodal event representations and their role in dynamic event comprehension, conducted jointly between the IWM and University of Tübingen. Aydin holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Psychology from Yaşar University in Izmir, Turkey. His master's thesis, titled "Perceptual and Conceptual Features of Event Segmentation", established his research foundation in event cognition. His primary research explores cognitive mechanisms of event perception, visual cognition, and meta-cognition. He investigates how humans segment continuous events, process spatial judgments in cinematic contexts, and represent events through modal (directly visible) and amodal (occluded) mechanisms. His work bridges experimental psychology with real-world media applications, emphasizing perceptual load, viewpoint dependency, and boundary processing in dynamic event comprehension. Recent publications reveal a cohesive research trajectory examining spatial cognition in film, event boundary effects on memory completion, and viewpoint dependencies in visual events. These studies employ rigorous experimental designs to uncover how continuity editing influences spatial judgments, how endpoints trigger event completion, and how perspective shifts affect event representation—collectively advancing understanding of dynamic event processing in naturalistic contexts. Aydin actively contributes to two major research initiatives: "ArchiveGPT" (2024–present), which evaluates multimodal large language models for archival image cataloguing from psychological and technical perspectives, and "Modal and amodal event representations" (2023–2026), a three-year project investigating meta-cognitive contributions to event comprehension. His collaborative approach involves partnerships with researchers across German universities and international conferences. As a core member of the IWM's Perception and Action Lab, Aydin participates in a multidisciplinary research ecosystem examining human perception, action, and learning in media environments. The lab's work spans multimodal interaction, realistic depictions, and knowledge construction, providing an integrated framework for his event cognition research.



