Cognitive
Professor
Department Chair
Ali İ. Tekcan
Education:
- PhD, American University, 1999
- MA, American University, 1996
- BA, Boğaziçi University, 1989
Courses Taught:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Human Memory
- Introduction to Statistics for Psychology I & II
- Research Methods in Psychology
- Advanced Cognitive Psychology
- Advanced Research Methods I & II
- Metacognition
Research Interests:
- Autobiographical & Flashbulb Memory
- Metacognition
- Collective Memory
- Experimental Psychopathology
Recent Publications:
Tekcan, A. İ., Boduroglu, A., Mutlutürk, A., Aktan Erciyes, A. (in press). Life-span retrieval of public events: Reminiscence bump for high-impact events, recency for others. Memory & Cognition.
Göz, İ., Tekcan, A. İ., & Aktan Erciyes, A. (in press). Subjective age-of-acquisition norms for 600 Turkish words from four age groups. Behavior Research Methods.
(Please also see Göz, İ., Tekcan, A. İ., & Aktan Erciyes, A (in press). Erratum to: Subjective age-of-acquisition norms for 600 Turkish words from four age groups. Behavior Research Methods, DOI: 10.3758/s13428-017-0914-6)
Göz, İ., Çeven, Z. İ., & Tekcan, A. İ. (2017). Urban-rural differences in children’s earliest memories. Memory, 25, 214-219.
Schwartz, B., Boduroglu, A., & Tekcan, A. İ. (2016). Methodological concerns: The feeling-of-knowing task affects resolution. Metacognition & Learning, 11, 305-316.
Göz, İ. Kılınç Karahan, S., Tekcan, A. İ. (2016). Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder are less prone to false memories. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 10, 62-68.
Mutlutürk, A., & Tekcan, A. İ. (2016). Remembering and telling of self-consistent and self-discrepant memories. Memory, 24, 513-525.
Bodurolu, A., Pehlivanoğlu, D., Tekcan, A. İ., & Kapucu, A. (2015). Effects of self-referencing on FOK accuracy and recollective experience. Memory, 23, 736-747.
Tekcan, A. İ., Yılmaz, E., Kaya Kızılöz, B., Karadöller, D. Z., Mutafoğlu, M., & Aktan Erciyes, A. (2015). Retrieval and phenomenology of autobiographical memories in blind individuals. Memory, 23, 329-339.
Bodurolu, A., Tekcan, A. İ., & Kapucu, A. (2014). The relationship between executive functions, episodic feeling-of-knowing, and confidence judgments. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26, 333-345.
