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  • A computational model and psychological investigation of event segmentation and learning 
    Başgöl, Hamit. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    Event is a fuzzy term that refers to bounded spatio-temporal units, which guide behavior to allow adaptation to complex environments. The study of event segmentation investigates mechanisms behind detecting these ...
  • 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 generative model of trust formation and generations 
    Özdeş, Mehmet Çelik. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis introduces an agent based simulation of a multi-generation population with a dynamic trust network in a world with limited resources. This population is assumed to be under evolutionary pressure incurring costs ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • ACT-R based memory models of iterated prisoner’s dilemma 
    Çetinkaya, Ayşegül. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma game is an important tool for studying cooperation in social, biological and artificial environments. Various behavioral and neuroscientific experiments point to complex decision making and ...
  • Action schemas :|understanding the social-cognitive skills of deaf adults through action-based units of cognition 
    Can, Berke. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis aims to apply action-based theoretical approaches to cognition to the empirical literature on the development of social-cognitive skills like mindreading through characterizing conceptual tools that can help ...
  • An lexicon for idiomatic compounds in Turkish 
    Eyigöz, Kadriye Elif. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    This work presents and comprises a constraint-based case-frame lexicon for idiomatic compounds headed by verbs in Turkish. The lexicon covers ten Turkish verbs with the highest number of senses to be used in natural language ...
  • Belief dynamics and the role of epistemic peership in identity construction 
    Karatoprak, Mark Ohan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    The drive for social inclusion has been observed to impact both individual beliefs and their corresponding behaviors. An individual’s uncertainty regarding their position within their affiliated groups has been identified ...
  • 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 ...
  • Cognitive dynamics of scientific curiosity 
    Subaşı, Ahmet. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The aim of this thesis is to develop an integrative perspective on the cognitive dynamics of scientific curiosity which influence and bias its motivational direction, i.e. its selectivity property. This perspective analyzes ...
  • Contribution of ventral pallidal cholinergic neurons to behavioral despair and fear learning 
    Halim, Sahar. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    Cholinergic neurons of the Ventral Pallidum (VP) densely innervate the Basolateral Complex (BLA) and Central Nucleus of Amygdala (CeA), and to a lesser extent project to the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis (BNST). ...
  • Detecting emotions during the application of skin conductance and heart rate measurement techniques 
    Çakar, Tuna. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    Emotions have long been recognized as influential factors in human behavior and they have various influences on motivation, cognition and attention. A variety of empirical evidences have shown that emotions have been a ...
  • Effects of scaling shoulder width in virtual reality on reachability and pass-through-ability affordances 
    Andaç, Safa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    Perceiving affordances, the action-possibilities of a system in an environment, is a survival key for the system (Gibson, 1966). Changing invariants for the system shapes its affordance perception (Warren & Whang, 1987). ...
  • Effects of working memory and language proficiency on second language predictive inference generation :|an eye-movement study 
    Sivridağ, Fatih. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    In this study, the effects of language proficiency and working memory capacity on predictive inference generation during reading in a second language (L2) were investigated by analysing L2 readers’ early and late ...
  • Experience and insight under time pressure :|a study with race game 
    Yalınkılınç, Duygu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In this paper, we experimentally study the effects of time constraints on learning efficient planning when subjects need to make sequential decisions. The subject is explored by utilizing a game theoretical tool called ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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” ...
  • Gigerenzer’s eclectic normativism 
    Selim, Aslı. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis examines Gigerenzer’s criticism of classical rationality and evaluates the adequacy of the ecological rationality view that he offers in its place. Classical rationality assumes that normative standards are ...

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