Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Tezleri: Recent submissions

  • Sensorimotor interaction and time perception: An empirical study and a philosophical discussion 
    Özbağcı, Duygu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    Time perception is a crucial aspect of experiencing and acting upon the world. This thesis is composed of an empirical part, where the potential interactions between action and visual time perception are studied using ...
  • Neural and cognitive underpinnings of trustworthiness in the prefrontal cortex via optical brain imaging 
    Bilik, Ali Taylan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Human face has been considered to be an indicator of various attributes including attractiveness, calmness, and trustworthiness. Even a single look for a short duration might have an influence on one’s attitude. This ...
  • A framework for understanding and detecting harassment in socialVR 
    Powell, Lance. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    SocialVR, as experienced in immersive audiovisual environments, is a symmetrical communication medium that allows for both verbal interaction, and limited physical interaction through first-person avatars. Through a ...
  • A psychophysical investigation and a philosophical discussion on perception 
    Gülhan, Doğa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Time seems to be a central mediator of many phenomenal experiences. The current thesis was an attempt to integrate a body of empirical work into philosophical discussions. Firstly, visual mechanisms of time perception ...
  • The effect of frequency on the comprehension of multi-word phrases in Turkish 
    Demirtaş, Hüseyin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    The effect of frequency on multi-word phrases is a comparatively recent area of inquiry. The interaction between multi-word phrases and frequency effects and the existence of multi-word frequency effects can shed light on ...
  • Acquisition of past tense in Albanian: implications for morphological processing and representation 
    Strori, Dorina. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    This study examines the acquisition of past tense in Albanian, which is a highly inflectional language, especially with respect to its verbal system. The past tense depicts a rather complex picture, involving several ...
  • Frequency effects in the processing of morphologically complex Turkish words 
    Bilgin, Orhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This is an empirical study that examines how morphologically simple and complex words in Turkish are represented in the brains of native speakers. Two experiments are reported that use various “frequency of occurrence” ...
  • The role of attention on scene recognition 
    Şenyazar, Berhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    It has been shown that little if any attention is required for scene recognition (Li, VanRullen, & Koch, 2002). The absence of the role of attention in scene recognition, however, has been challenged by Cohen, Alvarez, ...
  • Knowledge-based expectation effects on pitch perception: A cross-cultural investigation 
    Kaplan, Elif Canseza. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Earlier studies have shown that harmonic (Bigand & Pineau, 1997) as well as tonal expectations (Marmel, Perrin, & Tillmann, 2011; Marmel, Tillmann, & Dowling, 2008) influence pitch processing. The ending of a melody fragment ...
  • The effect of processing fluency on semantic illusion 
    Yallak, Ece. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Semantic illusion occurs when a question like “How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the ark?” was responded with “two” in spite of knowing that animals were taken to the ark by “Noah” not “Moses”, according ...
  • Velir or veler? Exploring adults' implicit knowledge of an irregular verbal pattern: The Turkish aorist 
    Contance Michon, Elise Anne. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    Morphological systems that possess irregular suffixation provide us important cues with respect to how words are processed and represented in the mind. This study attempts to find out how adult speakers of Turkish process ...
  • Fake sex: diploidy, dominance, coupling, attraction 
    Bowers, Robert Ian. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    What can be understood of a species when we know of it only that it is sexual? Two seemingly innocuous aspects of sex are considered. In Chapter Two, the matter is diploidy and allele dominance; in Chapter Three, it is the ...
  • A visual search task to evaluate top-down and bottom-up control of the pre-attentive stage and the ACT-R/PM vision module 
    Ünlü, Hakan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    Visual Attention is deployed in two stages: The pre-attentive stagedetermines which areas of the visual field are relevant for the task and therefore needto be attended. The attentive stage processes the visual information ...
  • Mental representation in phonology: a case study in the philosophy of cognitive science 
    Erbora, Avni Burak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    Cognitive science is first and foremost an interdisciplinary field, where research is based fundamentally on the idea that minds process information - that the brain is a biological computer. Cognitive scientific disciplines, ...
  • Biases in probability judgments: hot hand versus gambler's fallacy 
    Tanrıkulu, Ömer Dağlar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    This study focuses on how people's causal beliefs about processes that lead to a sequence of events influence their probability judgments on the next outcome. These beliefs affect people's tendencies towards either of the ...
  • The interplay between bottom-up and top-down processes underlying pre-reflective and reflective sense of agency: an integrative approach 
    Barlas, Zeynep. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    Sense of agency is commonly defined as the sense that one is the author of one’s actions and their consequences. The underlying mechanisms have long been ignored until certain disorders and experimental cases proved it ...
  • The charge of c in animal behavior: a philosophical analysis 
    Dikmelik, Ediz. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Anthropomorphism has been a common criticism of the attempts to interpret nonhuman animals as subjects of psychological attributes. It is held that anthropomorphism is a fallacy which must be avoided to do good science. ...
  • Control of inverted pendulum:| comparison of various strategies for swing up and balancing 
    Er, Fatih. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2005., 2005.)
    In this thesis, two different control schemes are designed for swinging up and three different schemes for balancing of an inverted pendulum, a non-linear electro-mechanical system with open loop unstablity. The controllers ...
  • Automated requirements classification using feature selection based on linguistic features 
    Çevikol, Sercan. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2021., 2021.)
    Requirements classification is an important problem in organizing the systems and requirements, and it is widely used in handling large requirements data sets. A basic example of a requirements classification problem is ...
  • Improved handling of SMS messages with statistical natural language processing techniques 
    Yıldırım, Ömer. (Thesis (M.S.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2005., 2005.)
    The Short Messaging Service (SMS) is built on the ability of mobile telephones tosend and receive text messages. SMS based applications are increasing dramatically day byday in the telecommunications industry. The most ...