Funda Yilmaz
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Funda Yilmaz
@fundayilmaz.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour in Nijmegen
• Emotional incongruency engaged increased activations in the frontoparietal network, suggesting higher cognitive effort 🔍
• Together, these findings provide new insights into the neural and behavioral dynamics of audiovisual emotional integration in art perception.🎧🧠
September 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
• The interaction effect between congruency and semantics led to stronger activation in the ventral visual stream and emotion-related regions, indicating more detailed visual processing while controlling for low-level features like color and brightness.🔗⚡
September 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
• Semantic content (meaning in the paintings) further boosted the effect of emotional congruency ✨
• Congruency engaged a broad network of brain regions involved in auditory/visual sensory processing, emotion-related areas, and cognitive regions. 🧠🌟
September 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
🧠🎨 In this paper, we explore how emotional (in)congruency shapes aesthetic experience by using fMRI and behavioral measures with naturalistic art stimuli.

Key findings:

• Emotionally congruent music and paintings (e.g., happy + happy) led to higher beauty ratingsl 🎼🖼️
September 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Huge thanks to my wonderful supervisors for their endless support: Rob van Lier, Tessa van Leeuwen, Yağmur Güçlütürk, PhD Umut Güçlü.
September 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Through it all, persistence paid off; we kept going despite challenges and distance.
September 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We began this project in the Netherlands when I was a post-bachelor. It paused during the pandemic in Turkey, continued through my master’s in Germany & France, and finally completed during my PhD back in the Netherlands.
September 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM