Görkem Bekbulat, M.Sc.

RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Phone+49 (0)631 / 205 4443
E-mailgoerkem.bekbulat@edu.rptu.de
Building57, Room 534

Areas of Interest


Time perception and temporal distortions ·  Visual cognition and event perception · Causal perception in dynamic object interactions

Curriculum Vitae


2022 – 2025 

Rhineland-Pfalz Technical University - Germany, 
Cognitive Science, 
Diploma: Master of Science

Focus:
Physiological psychology, neuroscience, time perception, causality and linguistics

Thesis Topic:
Exploring the deceptive effect of time on the mental representations of force with Michotte’s Launching Paradigm.


2017 – 2022

FMV Işık University - Türkiye
Psychology
Diploma: Bachelor

Focus:
Physiological psychology, neuroscience and linguistics

Thesis Topic:
Exploring and comparing the accuracy and the speed of the Navon Letters between athletes and non-athletes.

Research assistance, Internships & Projects


03/2025 – 06/2025

Student Research Assistant - HiWi
Rhineland-Pfalz Technical University
Perceptual bias in Gestalt grouping by proximity affected by visual working memory load


09/2024 – 12/2024

Student Research Assistant - HiWi
Rhineland-Pfalz Technical University
Global and local processing in a Navon matching task


12/2023 – 07/2024

Individual Lab Project 
Rhineland-Pfalz Technical University
Abstract Priming and the Lexical Boost Effect across Development in a Structurally Biased Language


11/2023 – 05/2024

Individual Lab Project
Rhineland-Pfalz Technical University
Response Priming and Behavioural Feedforward Mechanisms on EEG


08/2021 – 09/2021 

Voluntary Bachelor Internship (Erasmus)
Rhineland-Pfalz Technical University
Global and Local Processing in a Navon Matching Task

Conference proceedings

The Endless Global Precendence Effect: Behavioural Dynamics Between Global Precedence and the Fast-Same Effect - Aleksandar Bulajic, Frouke Hermans, Sven Panis, Görkem Bekbulat, Cees van Leuwen, Thomas Lachmann - Fechner Day Psychophysics Conference 2024 - India. Exploring the Deceptive Effect of Time on the Mental Representations of Force
Görkem Bekbulat, Aleksandar Bulajic Thomas Lachmann - Fechner Day Psyshophysics Conference 2025 - Brasil