My research focuses on working memory and its underlying neuronal processes in humans using fMRI, MEG, EEG, TMS. We also validate our results using intracranial human EEG data recorded from human participants with epilepsy during presurgical monitoring. Recently, my research focus expanded into understanding the cerebellar processes with MEG source localization and TMS/EEG using visually guided saccades. My mission is further the neuroscientific research by leveraging advanced and innovative techniques to obtain more precise anatomical, temporal, and spectral measurements of human higher brain functions. My current major interest is to investigate working memory mechanisms using multiple imaging modalities, machine learning and non-invasive brain stimulation. I also use MEG and TMS with event related analyses and source localization to map and cerebellar processes related to visually guided saccadic eye movement in individuals as my second major interest. My third interest is advancing fine-grained high-temporal resolution imaging of human cognition. We use advanced neuroimaging techniques including MEG to understand human cognitive processes. I am an instructor at MGH Martinos Center. I worked in several NIH-funded projects for the last six years. At MGH Martinos Center, I also have supervised several research assistants over the course of my postdoctoral fellowship. In addition to research, I organized and hosted Brainmap Seminar Series of Martinos center for two years.
Education
Ph.D.
Select Publications
1. Uluç I, Daneshzand M, Jas M, Kotlarz P, Lankinen K, Fiedler JL, Mamashli F, Pajankar N, Turpin T, Navarro de Lara L, Sundaram P, Raij T, Nummenmaa A, and Ahveninen J, Decoding auditory working memory content from EEG responses to auditory-cortical TMS. Brain Stimul, 2025. 18: p. 649-658. PMCID: PMC11838191.
2. Uluç, I, Schmidt, TT, Wu, Y-H, Blankenburg, F. Content-specific codes of parametric auditory working memory in humans. NeuroImage, 2018. 183: p. 254–262. PMID: 30107259.
3. Uluç I, Turpin T, Kotlarz P, Lankinen K, Mamashli F, and Ahveninen J, Comparing auditory and visual aspects of multisensory working memory using bimodally matched feature patterns. Experimental Brain Research, 2024. 243: p. 38. PMCID: PMC11848833.
Highlights
MGH Postdoctoral Association Travel Award
DAAD Award – German Academic Exchange Service
Associated Labs
ACLab
Sundaram Lab
Raij Lab
TMS lab