Browsing by Keywords "Memory"
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The 1912 Galata Bridge as a site of collective memory
(Bilkent University, 2002)This work looks at the 1912 Galata Bridge as a case study and attempts to examine it as a dual construction in two senses: space and memory. Acknowledging that space and memory mutually construct each other, this thesis ... -
Adaptation and nostalgia
(Oxford University Press, 2020)This essay highlights the shared critical terrain of adaptation and nostalgia: how they critically juxtapose the past with the present, and how they underscore the impossibility of return while also relying on prior ... -
Ahmet Hâşim şiirlerinde zaman
(Bilkent University, 2010)Poet and prose writer Ahmet Hâşim (1884-1933), a unique contributor to Modern Turkish Literature, penned down various great works. Although significant amount of scholarly research in the form of memoir and survey has ... -
Colour contribution to children's wayfinding in school environments
(Elsevier, 2011)The purpose of this study was to explore the contribution of colour to children's wayfinding ability in school environments and to examine the differences between colours in terms of their remembrance and usability in route ... -
The contribution of perceptual disfluency in auditory and visual modalities to actual and predicted memory performance
(Bilkent University, 2020-01)Research has shown that perceptual disfluencies may affect both actual and predicted memory performance. However, the contribution of perceptual disfluency in multiple modalities to actual and predicted memory has not ... -
Cooking through perceptual disfluencies: The effects of auditory and visual distortions on predicted and actual memory performance
(Springer New York LLC, 2022-11-23)The current study investigated the joint contribution of visual and auditory disfuencies, or distortions, to actual and predicted memory performance with naturalistic, multi-modal materials through three experiments. In ... -
Cyberspace as a locus for urban collective memory
(Bilkent University, 2013)However salient the concept of cyberspace is, this study is an exploration of the relationship of people with their places. With a socio-spatial approach, this work sets forth a theoretical plexus between collective ... -
Designing mosques for secular congregations: Transformations of the mosque as a social space in Turkey
(Locke Science Publishing, 2011)This study examines contemporary meanings and uses of the mosque in Turkey by arguing that productive architectural plans require understanding both the socio-historical development of the mosque and the socio-political ... -
Does distance affect memory predictions by activating beliefs about perceptual fluency
(Bilkent University, 2016-06)People predict their future memory performance to be better for the perceptually fluent stimuli than for the disfluent ones. For instance, their memory confidence is higher for the words written in large fonts than small ... -
Effect of color on memory through signage systems in train stations
(Bilkent University, 2020-09)In complex buildings, it is important to remember the color of information while finding the way with correct identifications. The purpose of the study is to understand the relationship between misleading information and ... -
Facebook communities about nostalgic photos of Turkey: creative practices of remembering and representing the past
(Routledge, 2017)This article focuses on Facebook communities about nostalgic photos of Turkey to explore how citizenship is enacted through the participatory and collaborative use of social media to remember and represent the past. By ... -
A figure of merit for optimization of nanocrystal flash memory design
(2008)Nanocrystals can be used as storage media for carriers in flash memories. The performance of a nanocrystal flash memory depends critically on the choice of nanocrystal size and density as well as on the choice of tunnel ... -
Generating lies produces lower memory predictions and higher memory performance than telling the truth: evidence for a metacognitive illusion
(American Psychological Association, 2018)Manipulations that induce disfluency during encoding generally produce lower memory predictions for the disfluent condition than for the fluent condition. Similar to other manipulations of disfluency, generating lies takes ... -
Half asleep, winded losses : a visual survey on photography, memory and meaning
(Bilkent University, 2012)As!Henry! Bergson! points! out,!memory!images! that!we! have! stored!in! our! minds! throughout!our!lives! trigger!our!past!experiences!and!help! form! the! moment! we! live! in. This! thesis! is! an! attempt! to challenge! ... -
Holocaust education in Turkey: past, present, and future
(Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd., 2016)The article emphasizes on the challenges stemming from writing the history of a multicultural, multiethnic, and multireligious, post-imperial society from the perspective of a nation-state that strives for sweeping all ... -
Hybrid anatomies: an artistic research on body and perception in relation to actual and virtual
(Bilkent University, 2022-09)This research conceptualizes the relationship between the actual and the virtual in the context of body and self. The subject-matter of the thesis is based on personal memories of an illness, which caused distortions of ... -
The information effect: constructive memory, testimony, and epistemic luck
(2013)The incorporation of post-event testimonial information into an agent's memory representation of the event via constructive memory processes gives rise to the misinformation effect, in which the incorporation of inaccurate ...
