Graduate School of Informatics

Graduate School of Informatics /Cognitive Sciences

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Ayşenur Hülagü will defend his thesis.

Title: THE FUNCTIONALITY OF NON-VISUAL GAZE PATTERNS DURING REMEMBERING OF THE PAST AND IMAGINING THE FUTURE: EVIDENCE FROM EYE TRACKING

Date: 2nd August 2018

Time: 13:00 AM

Place: B-116

Thesis Abstract :Future-oriented thoughts play an important role in human mental life. They can be more or less abstract, including themes such as work, relationships, leisure activities and errands, and serve functions such as action planning, decision making and emotion regulation (d’Argembeau et al., 2011). Future-oriented thoughts share some properties with past memories. Both can comprise episodic as well as semantic aspects. Episodic cognition is the capacity for mental time travel and allows a person to relive and prelive events of their own life (Suddendorf et al., 2009) whereas semantic cognition is related to general world knowledge. According to Szpunar et al. (2014), there seems to be a whole continuum of episodic and semantic forms as well as different modes of future thinking such as simulation, prediction, intention, and planning, serving different functions for adaptive behavior. An important but as yet unresolved empirical issue is how one can distinguish episodic and semantic forms of past and future cognition, respectively. Micic et al. (2010) revealed in three experiments that non-visual gaze patterns occur frequently during mental activities, in particular during long-term memory searches. Non-visual eye-movements may therefore indicate mental simulation during remembering the past, which is characteristic of episodic cognition. In this study eye-tracking methodology will be used to find out whether non-visual gaze patterns occur during thinking of the past and into the future and, if so, whether they may be diagnostic of episodic as compared to semantic thinking.

As a result of the interviews for Bioinformatics Master Program 2018-2019 Fall Semester, the names of students who are accepted into the programs are listed below.

* For our accepted students, there will be an orientation meeting before the interactive registration. The place and date of the meeting will be anounced later in our web page.

İrem Aksoy Cankur (Deficiency Program)

Sıla Çınar (Deficiency Program)

Fatma Nisa Esen (Deficiency Program)

Fatma Ülkem Kasapoğlu (Deficiency Program)

Ayşenur Okatan (Deficiency Program)

Sevda Rafatov (Deficiency Program)

As a result of the interviews for Medical Informatics Department M.S. and Ph.D. Programs 2018-2019 Fall Semester, the names of students who are accepted into the programs are listed below.

* For our accepted students, there will be an orientation meeting before the interactive registration. The place and date of the meeting will be anounced later in our web page.

PhD.

Sinem Demirkaya Budak (Deficiency Program)

Babür Erdem (Deficiency Program)

Selin Girgin (Deficiency Program)

Serkan Karadağ (Deficiency Program)

Celal Oğuz Özdemir (Deficiency Program)

Alperen Taciroğlu

Bengü Ruken Yavuz

Master

Nebi Cihan Boydaş (Deficiency Program)

Ayşe Özdemir (Deficiency Program)

Sevda Rafatov (Deficiency Program)

Mehmet Tunahan Sarıoğlu (Deficiency Program)

Engin Tekin (Deficiency Program)

As a result of the interviews for Cyber Security Department Non-Thesis Master Program 2018-2019 Fall Semester, the names of students who are accepted into the programs are listed below.

Students who are accepted into non-thesis M.S. Program and Academic Deficiency Program

The names of students who are accepted into the Software Management program are listed below for 2018-2019 Fall Semester:

Students who are accepted into non-thesis M.S. Program and Academic Deficiency Program

As a result of the interviews for Information Systems M.S. and PhD. Program 2018-2019 Fall Semester, the names of students who are accepted into the program are listed below.

MSc with Thesis

MSc with Non-Thesis

PhD. on Bsc.

PhD. 

As a result of the interviews for Cognitive Science Department M.S. and Ph.D. Programs 2018-2019 Fall Semester, the names of students who are accepted into the programs are listed below.

* For our accepted students, there will be an orientation meeting before the interactive registration. The place and date of the meeting will be anounced later in our web page.

Students who are accepted into non-thesis M.S. Program and Academic Deficiency Program

Students who are accepted into Ph.D. Program

As a result of the interviews for Multimedia Informatics M.S. Program 2018-2019 Fall Semester, the names of students who are accepted into the program are listed below.

* For our accepted students, there will be an orientation meeting before the interactive registration. The place and date of the meeting will be anounced later in our web page.

Those who applied for the Fall Semester 2018 of the Graduate School of Informatics and can not submit or submit missing documents (including mistakes made while completing the form from the system) will be able to submit and complete missing documents between 3-4 July 2018.

 After July 4, 2018, it will not be allowed to submit and complete missing documents.

Missing documents will be uploaded to the system via https://oibs2.metu.edu.tr/Ms_Phd_Applications/.

NOTE: No new application will be accepted. Only previous applications will be allowed to altered. 

As a result of the applications for Graduate Programs of Information Systems 2018-2019 Fall Semester,

Interviews will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, July 4-5, 2018. Master's interviews will be held on 4th of July 2018 at the Informatics Institute Class-02 at 09:00 in alphabetical order and Doctoral Interviews will be held on 5th of July 2018 at the Informatics Institute Class-02 at 09:00 in alphabetical order

The invited candidates are as follows:

MSc Thesis Candidates

MSc Non-Thesis Candidates

PhD. on Bsc. Candidates

PhD. Candidates