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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The effects of extensive musical training on time perception regarding hemispheric lateralization, different time ranges and generalization to different modalities 
    Sevinç, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Time perception and estimation are very important aspects of human behavior. Whether these are based on a single internal clock or the result of distributed and emergent processes in the brain is still a matter of debate. ...
  • Unsupervised learning of high-level invariant visual representations through temporal coherence 
    Orhan, Ahmed Emin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    Temporal coherence principle is the idea of neglecting rapidly changing compo- nents of a temporal signal while keeping to the slowly varying ones, in order to extract useful invariances from the signal. We note that most ...
  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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” ...
  • 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 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 ...

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