Students and trainees are underlined on journal articles. Publications that are not yet in print are not listed.
Refereed Journal Articles:
- Tosun, T., Berkay, D., Sack, A.T., Çakmak, Y.Ö., & Balcı, F.* (2017). Inhibition of Pre-SMA by Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation Leads to More Cautious Decision-making and More Efficient Sensory Evidence Integration. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 29(8), 1433-1444.
- Agostino, C. S., Caetano, M. S., Balcı, F., Claessens, P. M. E., & Zana, Y. (2017). Individual differences in long-range time representation. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 79(3), 833-840.
- Akdoğan, B. & Balcı, F.* (2017). Are You Early or Late?: Temporal Error Monitoring. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 146(3), 347-361. Featured on Psychology Today
- Gür, E. & Balcı, F.* (2017). Mice Optimize Timed Decisions about Probabilistic Outcomes under Deadlines. Animal Cognition. 20(3), 473-484
- Erhan, C., Carkaxhiu Bulut, G., Gokce, S., Ozbas, D., Turkakin, E., Dursun, O.B., Yazgan, Y., & Balcı, F.* (2017). Disrupted latent decision processes in medication-free pediatric OCD patients. Journal of Affective Disorders, 207(1), 32-37.
- Akdogan, B., Balcı, F., van Rijn, H. (2016). Temporal Expectation Indexed by Pupillary Response. Timing & Time Perception. 4(4), 354 – 370.
- Berkay, D., Freestone, D., & Balcı, F.* (2016). Mice and rats fail to integrate exogenous timing noise into their time-based decisions. Animal Cognition, 19(6), 1215–1225.
- Karşılar, H. & Balcı, F.* (2016). Asymmetrical Modulation of Time Perception by Increase vs. Decrease in Coherence of Motion. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 78(8), 2690–2707.
- Akdogan, B. & Balcı, F.* (2016). The Effects of Payoff Manipulations on Temporal Bisection Performance. Acta Psychologica, 170, 74-83.
- Balcı, F.* & Simen, P. (2016). A decision model of timing. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 8, 94-101. pdf
- Tosun, T., Gür, E., & Balcı, F.* (2016). Mice plan decision strategies based on previously learned time intervals, locations, and probabilities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 787-792. Supplemental Material: Parametric Test Results
- Erhan, C. & Balcı, F.* (2016). Obsessive compulsive features predict cautious decision strategies. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 16, 1-12.
- Berkay, D., Cavdaroglu, B., & Balcı, F*. (2016). Probabilistic Numerical Discrimination in Mice. Animal Cognition, 19, 251-265.
- Cavdaroğlu, B. & Balcı, F.* (2016). Mice can count and optimize count-based decisions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 23(3), 871-876. Covered as the Psychonomic Society Featured Content
- Akdogan, B. & Balci, F.* (2016). Aralık Zamanlama: Kuramsal ve Deneysel Yaklaşımlar (Interval Timing: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches). Turk Psikoloji Yazilari/Turkish Psychological Articles. 19(37), 32-34.
- Coskun, F., Berkay, D., Sayali, C., & Balcı, F.* (2015). Sequential Temporal Discrimination in Humans and Mice. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 28, 1-14.
- Carkoglu, C., Yilmaz, M., & Balcı, F.* (2015). Continuous Spontaneous Alternation and Turn Alternation in Artemia sp. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 28, 1-7.
- Akdogan, B. & Balci, F.* (2016). Stimulus Probability Effects on Temporal Bisection Performance of Mice (Mus musculus). Animal Cognition, 19, 15-30.
- Demirtas Sahin, T., Karson, A., Balci, F., Yazır, Y., Bayramgürler, D., & Utkan, T. (2015). TNF-alpha inhibition prevents cognitive decline and maintains hippocampal BDNF levels in the unpredictable chronic mild stress rat model of depression. Behavioural Brain Research, 292, 233-240.
- Freestone, D., Balci, F., Simen, P., & Church, R.M. (2015). Optimal Response Rates in Humans and Rats. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning & Cognition. 41(1), 39-51.
- Coskun, F., Sayali, C., Gurbuz, E., & Balci, F. (2015). Optimal time discrimination. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 68(2), 381-401.
- Balci, F.* (2014). Interval Timing, Dopamine, & Motivation, Timing & Time Perception, 2 (3), 379-410.
- Karsilar, H., Simen, P., Papadakis, S., & Balci, F.* (2014). Speed Accuracy Trade-off Under Response Deadlines. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8:248. doi3: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00248
- Balci, F.* & Simen, P. (2014). Decision processes in temporal discrimination. Acta Psychologica, 149, 157-168.
- Maggi, D., Garbugino, L., Heise, I., Nieus, T., Balci, F., Wells, S., Tocchini-Valentini, G.P., Mandillo, S., Nolan, P.M., & Tucci, V. (2014). A cross-laboratory investigation of timing endophenotypes in mouse behavior. Timing and Time Perception, 2(1), 35-40.
- Balci, F.*, Ramey-Balci, P., & Ruamps, P. (2014). Spontaneous alternation and locomotor activity in three species of marine crabs: Green crab (Carcinus maenas), blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) and fiddler crab (Uca pugnax). Journal of Comparative Psychology. 128(1), 65-73.
- Cavdaroglu, B., Zeki, M., & Balci, F.* (2013). Time-based reward maximization. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 369(1637), 20120461.
- Gallistel, C.R., Balci, F., Freestone, D., Kheifets, A., & King, A. (2013). Automated, Quantitative Cognitive/Behavioral Screening of Mice: For Genetics, Pharmacology, Animal Cognition and Undergraduate Instruction. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 84, e51047.
- Balci, F.*, Oakeshott, S., Shamy, J., El Khodor, B., Filippov, I., Mushlin, R. et al. (2013). High-Throughput Automated Phenotyping of Two Genetic Mouse Models of Huntington’s Disease. PLOS Currents in Huntington Disease, 1/doi: 10.1371/currents.hd.124aa0d16753f88215776fba102ceb29
- Simen, P., Rivest, F., Ludvig, E.A., Balci, F., & Killeen, P. (2013). Timescale invariance in the pacemaker-accumulator family of timing models. Timing & Time Perception, 30, 159-188.
- Karson, A. Demirtas, T., Bayramgurler, D., Balci, F., & Utkan, T. (2013). Chronic administration of Infliximab (TNF-alpha inhibitor) decreases depression and anxiety-like behavior in rat model of unpredictable chronic mild stress. Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, 112(5), 335-40.
- Balci, F.*, Wiener, M., Cavdaroglu, B., & Coslett, B.H. (2013). Epistasis Effects of Dopamine Genes on Interval Timing and Reward Magnitude in Humans. Neuropsychologia, 51(2), 293-308.
- Karson, A., Utkan, T., Balci, F., Aricioglu, F., & Ates, N. (2012). Age–related decline in learning and memory performances of male WAG/Rij rats. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 8/51.
- Brunner, D., Balci, F., & Ludvig, E.A. (2012). Comparative Psychology and the Grand Challenge of Drug Discovery in Psychiatry and Neurodegeneration, Behavioural Processes, 89, 187-95 (selected and evaluated in Faculty 1000 placing this work in the top 2 percent of published articles in biology and medicine).
- Balci, F.*, Freestone, D., Simen, P., deSouza, L., Cohen, J. D., & Holmes, P. (2011). Optimal Temporal Risk Assessment. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 5, 1-15.
- Simen, P., Balci, F., deSouza, L., Cohen, J. D., & Holmes, P. (2011). Interval timing by long-range temporal integration. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 5, 1-2.
- Simen, P.*, Balci, F., deSouza, L., Holmes, P., & Cohen, J. D. (2011). A model of interval timing by neural integration. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(25), 9238-9253.
- Oakeshott, S., Balci, F., Flippov, I., Murphy, C., Port, R., Connor, D., Paintdakhi, A., LeSauter, J., Menalled, L., Ramboz, S., Kwak, S., Howland, D., Silver, R., & Brunner, D. (2011). Circadian abnormalities in motor activity in a BAC transgenic mouse model of Huntington’s Disease. PLoS Currents: Huntington Disease, 25/3:RRN1225
- Ludvig, E. A., Balci, F., & Spetch, M. L. (2011). Reward magnitude and timing in pigeons. Behavioural Processes, 86(3), 359-363.
- Balci, F.*, Simen, P., Niyogi, R., Saxe, A., Hughes, J., Holmes, P., & Cohen, J. D. (2011). Acquisition of decision-making criteria: Reward rate ultimately beats accuracy. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73(2), 640-657.
- Paterson, N.E., Balci, F., Campbell, U., Olivier, B., & Hanania, T. (2011). The triple reuptake inhibitor DOV216,303 exhibits limited antidepressant-like properties in the differential reinforcement of low-rate 72-sec responding assay, likely due to dopamine reuptake inhibition. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 25(10), 1357-1364.
- Balci, F.*, Ludvig, E.A., & Brunner, D. (2010). Within-session modulation of timed anticipatory responding: When to start responding. Behavioural Processes, 85(2), 204-206.
- Balci, F.*, Ludvig, E.A., Abner, R., Zhuang, X., Poon, P., B., & Brunner, D. (2010). Motivational Effects on Interval Timing in Dopamine Transporter (DAT) Knockdown Mice. Brain Research, 1325, 89-99. 18.
- Gallistel, C.R., King, A.P., Daniel, A.M., Freestone, D., Papachristos, E.B., Balci, F., Kheifets, A., Zhang, J., Su, X., Schiff G., & Kourtev, H. (2010). Screening for Learning and Memory Mutations: A New Approach. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 42(1), 138-158.
- Balci, F.*, Day, M., Rooney, A., & Brunner, D. (2009). Disrupted Temporal Control in the R6/2 Mouse Model of Huntington’s Disease. Behavioral Neuroscience, 123(6),1353-1358.
- Balci, F.*, Freestone, D., & Gallistel, C.R. (2009). Risk assessment in man and mouse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(7), 2459-2463. Covered by Asbury Park Press, Science Daily, Le Scienze, Spektrum.de along with others.
- Balci, F.*, Gallistel, C.R., Allen, B.D., Frank, K., Gibson, J., & Brunner, D. (2009). Acquisition of peak responding: What is learned? Behavioural Processes, 80(1), 67-75.
- Ramey, P.A., Teichman, E., Oleksiak, J., & Balci, F.* (2009). Spontaneous alternation in marine crabs: invasive versus native species. Behavioural Processes, 82(1), 51-55.
- Balci, F.*, Ludvig, E.A., Gibson, J.M., Allen, B.D., Frank, K.M., Kapustinski, B.J., Fedolak, E.T., & Brunner, D. (2008). Pharmacological manipulations of interval timing using the peak procedure in male C3H mice. Psychopharmacology, 201(1), 67-80.
- Balci, F.*, Papachristos, E. B., Gallistel, C.R., Brunner, D., Gibson, J., & Shumyatsky, G.P. (2008). Interval-Timing in the Genetically Modified Mouse: A Simple Paradigm. Genes, Brain, and Behavior, 7(3), 373-384.
- Ludvig, E.A., Balci, F., & Longpre, K.M. (2008). Timescale dependence in a conditional temporal discrimination procedure. Behavioural Processes, 77(3), 357-363.
- Karson, A., Onat, F., Balci, F., & Ates, N (2008). Locotomor Activity, Learning and Memory in WAG/Rij Rats with Absense Epilepsy. Epilepsi, 14(3), 167-175.
- Day, M., Balci, F., Wan, H.I., Fox, G.B., Kling, M.A., Rutkowski, J.L., & Feuerstein, G. (2008). Cognitive Endpoints in Attention, Impulsivity and Recent and Remote Memory as Disease Biomarkers: Optimizing the Congruency of Preclinical Models to the Clinic. Current Opinion in Investigational Drugs, 9, 696-706.
- Gallistel, C.R., King, A.P., Gottlieb, D., Balci, F., Papachristos, E.B., Szalecki, M., & Carbone, K.S. (2007). Is Matching Innate? Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 87(2), 161-199.
- Montemayor, C., & Balci, F. (2007). Compositionality in Language and Arithmetic. Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology, 27(1), 53-72.
- Balci, F.* & Gallistel, C.R. (2006). Cross-Domain Transfer of Quantitative Discriminations: Is it All a Matter of Proportion? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13(4), 636-642.
Peer-reviewed Conference Publications:
- Genç, C., Soomro, S., Duyan, Y., Balcı, F., Ürey, H., & Özcan, O. (2016). Head Mounted Projection Display & Visual Attention: Visual attentional processing of head referenced static and dynamic displays while in motion and standing. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) ’16 (Project Website)
- Simen, P., Van Vugt, M., Balci, F., Freestone, D. and Polk, T. (2010). Toward an analog neural substrate for production systems. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling.
- Gallistel, C.R., King, A.P., Daniel, A.M., Papachristos, E.B., & Balci, F. (August 2008). Fully automated 24/7 behavioral screening for mutations in targeted cognitive mechanisms in the mouse. Measuring Behavior 2008, 55.
Book Chapters:
- Gallistel, C.R., Balci, F., Freestone, D., Kheifets, A., King, A. (2017). A Cognitive Neurogenetics Screening System with a Data-Analysis Toolbox. In V. Tucci Handbook of Neurobehavioral Genetics and Phenotyping. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (pp. 507-526).
- Freestone, D. & Balci, F. (2017). The biological basis of economic choice in mammals. In V. Tucci Handbook of Neurobehavioral Genetics and Phenotyping. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (pp. 143-168).
- Balci, F. & Karson, A. (2012). Sinir Sisteminin Yapısı ve İşlevleri (Structure and Functions of the Nervous System). In Zeynep Cemalcılar, Psikolojiye Giriş (pp. 56-95) (Introduction to Psychology). Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniveritesi Açıköğretim Fakültesi Yayınları.
- Balci, F., Meck, W., Moore, H., & Brunner, D. (2009). Timing Deficits in Aging and Neuropathology. In Jennifer L. Bizon & Alisa G. Woods (Eds.), Animal Models of Human Cognitive Aging (pp. 161-201). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.
Other Publications:
- Balci, F. (2013). Oznel zaman (Subjective time). Cogito, 75
- Balci, F. (2012). Decision optimization based on brain’s clock. Frontier, 7, 11-13.