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Çağlar Akçay

Anglia Ruskin University, Koç University
Verified email at aru.ac.uk
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Acoustic sequences in non‐human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus

…, DT Blumstein, MA Roch, Ç Akçay… - Biological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Animal acoustic communication often takes the form of complex sequences, made up of
multiple distinct acoustic units. Apart from the well‐known example of birdsong, other animals …

Song type matching is an honest early threat signal in a hierarchical animal communication system

Ç Akçay, ME Tom, SE Campbell… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Aggressive encounters between animals often involve significant amounts of signalling before
or in lieu of physical fights. When, as is often the case, these apparent threat signals are …

[HTML][HTML] Domain-specific conflict adaptation without feature repetitions

Ç Akçay, E Hazeltine - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2011 - Springer
… The latter possibility is supported by our finding that control effects can be task specific even
within a domain (Akçay & Hazeltine, 2008), suggesting that the scope of conflict adaptation …

Conflict monitoring and feature overlap: Two sources of sequential modulations

Ç Akçay, E Hazeltine - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2007 - Springer
Recent findings demonstrating that the Simon effect diminishes when the preceding trial is a
noncorresponding trial led researchers to develop two alternative accounts. The conflict …

Good neighbour, bad neighbour: song sparrows retaliate against aggressive rivals

Ç Akçay, WE Wood, WA Searcy, CN Templeton… - Animal Behaviour, 2009 - Elsevier
… In contrast, extrapair copulations (EPCs) are prevalent in the song sparrow (24% of
offspring in our population result from EPCs; CE Hill, Ç. Akçay, SE Campbell & MD Beecher, …

Conflict adaptation depends on task structure.

Ç Akçay, E Hazeltine - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
The dependence of the Simon effect on the correspondence of the previous trial can be
explained by the conflict-monitoring theory, which holds that a control system adjusts automatic …

Sing softly and carry a big stick: signals of aggressive intent in the song sparrow

Ç Akçay, ME Tom, D Holmes, SE Campbell… - Animal Behaviour, 2011 - Elsevier
Reliability of signalling has been the focus of much research in behavioural ecology, yet few
studies have been able to show that putative aggressive signals actually predict …

Extrapair paternity, song, and genetic quality in song sparrows

CE Hill, Ç Akçay, SE Campbell… - Behavioral …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
… from the meta-analysis by Akçay and Roughgarden (2007b). The … the same procedure as
in Akçay and Roughgarden (2007b). … We thank Erol Akçay for making the data from the meta-…

Indirect reciprocity: song sparrows distrust aggressive neighbours based on eavesdropping

Ç Akçay, VA Reed, SE Campbell, CN Templeton… - Animal Behaviour, 2010 - Elsevier
… Searcy, Ben Kerr, Yamile Molina and Serap Yiğit Elliott for comments on the manuscript,
and Zeynep Akçay for assistance in preparing Fig. 1. We thank Erol Akçay for writing the …

Quiet threats: soft song as an aggressive signal in birds

Ç Akçay, RC Anderson, S Nowicki, MD Beecher… - Animal Behaviour, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights • Low-amplitude vocalizations are honest signals used in aggressive contests by
animals. • Here we address two questions: why are they soft, and why are they reliable? • …