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  • Interactions of body representations in rubber hand illusion and tool-use paradigms 
    Erkent, Mahmut Alp. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    In neuropsychological literature, numerous case studies suggest two separate body representations in the brain; one for perception, called the body image, and one for action, called the body schema. Rubber hand illusion ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • Modeling the human mind as an information processor :|a Heideggerian critique 
    Alpagut, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    Research efforts seeking to construct a scientific study of mind became institutionalized as cognitive science after World War II. These research efforts were inspired by the technological developments of that era in three ...
  • Morality-as-cooperation :|how it relates to construal levels and how the theory could improve 
    Kılıç, Zafer. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis is composed of two main parts. The first part involves an experimental study following Alper and Yilmaz (2020), who, informed by previous findings and construal level theory, hypothesized that experimentally ...
  • MorphLaz :|a finite-state morphological analyzer for Laz 
    Önal, Esra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis is a part of documentation and revitalization efforts of the endangered Laz language, a member of South Caucasian language family mainly spoken on the northeastern coastline of Turkey. It introduces the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Psycho-cognitive effects of the expectancy of score-based feedback in an activity involving artistic emotional expression 
    Dağ, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    Feedback-based control is being used extensively in modern technology with great success to make systems behave in a desired manner. Also for human performers, receiving feedback about their performances provides opportunity ...
  • 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 ...
  • Temporal experience :|perception and action dynamics 
    Kurtcan, Ayşe Melisa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis is composed of an empirical study and a philosophical discussion on the influence of temporally altered feedback adaptation in response to willful actions upon the dynamic perceptual character of experience. ...
  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...
  • The effects of smooth pursuit eye movements and abutting pattern motion on luminance contrast sensitivity 
    Alaşhan, Didem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    Spatiotemporal context alters the visibility. The detectability of a low-contrast luminance-modulated sinusoidal target abutting a high-contrast drifting grating is impaired when the two stimuli are out-of-phase, suppression ...
  • 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 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, ...
  • The role of ventral pallidal gabaergic neurons in affective and cognitive processes 
    Akmeşe, Cemal. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2022., 2022.)
    GABAergic projections from the ventral pallidum (VP) and the associated substantia innominata (SI) are relayed to two limbic structures respectively associated with acute and chronic forms of fear: the amygdala and the ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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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