Personal Profile

Senay obtained her ophthalmic dispensing degree in Berlin, Germany in 1997. After practising for several years as an ophthalmic dispenser in Germany she graduated with a diploma in optometry at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany with a first-class honours degree in 2008. Senay then undertook her PhD in the Department of Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University in Glasgow, UK in 2012. Senay's teaching interests include ophthalmic dispensing, visual optics, geometrical optics, optometric refraction and theoretical and practical ophthalmic lenses.

Research Interests

Senay's research interests are ageing and visual perception using methods of psychophysics, visual evoked potent potentials and eye-movement recordings.

Consultancy and other professional activity

• Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (Member)
• Vision Science Society (Member)
• European Conference on Visual Perception (Member)

Publications

Aydin S., Manahilov V., Strang N.C. Age-related deficits in attentional control of perceptual rivalry.
Vision Research 2012 (under review).

Aydin S., Manahilov V., Strang N.C., Northway N. Noise-exclusion deficits in aging. 2012 (in preparation).

Conference presentations

Aydin S., Manahilov V., Strang N.C., Northway N. Logan A. Effects of age on the reading abilities revealed by a positional character noise paradigm. British Congress of Optometry and Vision Science (poster presentation). Abstract in Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics in 2011.

Aydin S., Manahilov V., Strang N.C., Shahani U. Perceptual Rivalry in Aging and Amblyopic Eyes.
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, USA (poster presentation).
Abstract in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science in 2010.

Aydin S., Manahilov V., Shahani U., Strang N.C., Simpson WA. Age-related changes in perceptual rivalry.
European Conference on Visual Perception, Regensburg, Germany (poster presentation). Abstract in Perception, ECVP Abstract Supplement, 38, 148 in 2009