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Şirin Ezgi Eraltan received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Boğaziçi University in 2006. She continued her MA graudate work Cognivite Psychology first at Koç University(2006-2009) with a full scholarship, and transferred to the Psychological Sciences graduate program of Boğaziçi University, obtaining her MA degree in 2018.

Esra Mungan received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Boğaziçi University in 1990. After her BA she continued as a graudate student at the Cognivite Psychology. PhD program at American University and received her MA in 1998 and PhD in 2007, after a gap period during which she left the program right before her doctoral defense. In between, she worked in the private sector from 1998 to 2002. She returned to Boğaziçi University as an instructor in 2002 and re-entered the PhD program in Behavior, Cognition and Neuroscience(BCAN) at American University in 2005, where she received her degree in January 2007. Mungan served as vice chair of the department from 2002 to 2005. Since 2005 she is coordinator of the Departmental Erasmus and Exchange Program, and since 2018 she is program advisor of the Psychological Science Master's program. Mungan^'s publications and conference presentation center on music cognition with special focus on music segmentation, Gestalt principles in music perception, rhythm perception and language-music interactions. Among her other interest are conceptualizations of evolutionary theory as well cognitive science related subjects.