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A generalizable framework for measuring emotion's role in social decision-making

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Emotions are ubiquitous in all human experiences, affecting every part of our social lives including our thoughts, perceptions, and decisions. When faced with someone asking …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Heffner, Joseph (creator)
FeldmanHall, Oriel (Advisor)
Frank, Michael (Reader)
Shenhav, Amitai (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Decision making
Morality
emotions
Affect (Psychology)
Behavioral Economics
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A Systematic Investigation of Feature-Based Visual Learning: Mechanisms and Application

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Visual perceptual learning is defined as visual performance improvement after visual perceptual experiences. It is controversial how changes in association with feature representation change, namely …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Wang, Zhiyan (creator)
Watanabe, Takeo (Advisor)
Frank, Michael (Reader)
Sasaki, Yuka (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Perceptual learning
Cognitive neuroscience
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A visual model of collective behavior in crowds

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Abstract of A visual model of collective behavior in crowds, by Gregory C. Dachner, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2021. Collective motion in human crowds emerges …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Dachner, Gregory Carter (creator)
Warren, William (Advisor)
Domini, Fulvio (Reader)
Serre, Thomas (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Visual perception
agent-based models
Collective behavior
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Abstraction underlies inferential representation of social networks

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In the context of vast, complex, and dynamic social networks, strategic decision making relies on knowing how people are connected within their larger social communities. …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Son, Jae-Young (creator)
FeldmanHall, Oriel (Advisor)
Frank, Michael (Reader)
Nassar, Matthew (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Social networks
Abstraction
Cognitive maps (Psychology)
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Accent Perception and Adaptation During Lexical Access: Expand, Shift, or Pathway

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Speech is extremely variable along many different dimensions. One source of variability listeners often encounter is accented speech, in which phonological units can systematically differ …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Franklin, Lauren R (creator)
Morgan, James (Advisor)
Cohen Priva, Uriel (Reader)
White, Katherine (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Eye tracking
Cognitive science
Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Accents and accentuation
English language--Accents and accentuation
Phonetics
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Action Training Facilitates Perception and Cognition

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Our daily experience can be thought of as a sequence of acquiring perceptual input to make decisions, then planning and executing appropriate actions. Hence, examining …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Guo, Jianfei (creator)
Song, Joo-Hyun (Advisor)
Welch, Leslie (Reader)
Watanabe, Takeo (Reader)
Sternad, Dagmar (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Cognition
Perception
Action
Action training
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Ad hoc color–concept mapping and interpreting visual representations

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Interpreting visual representations of abstract concepts (e.g. graphs and signs) requires inferring abstract meanings from visual features (e.g., colors). We predicted that this process would …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Lai, Leslie Yunhsuan (creator)
Heindel, William (Advisor)
Welch , Leslie (Reader)
Watanabe, Takeo (Reader)
Schloss, Karen B. (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Information visualization
Visual perception
color cognition
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Adaptive mechanisms support expediency and generalization in human reinforcement learning

Description:
Humans are remarkably adaptive. Over the course of a day, year, and lifetime, we consistently encounter new and complex environments, each with their own goals …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Jaskir, Alana (creator)
Frank, Michael (Advisor)
Badre, David (Reader)
Nassar, Matthew (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Decision making
Dopamine
Cognition
Reinforcement learning
Abstraction
Generalization in Reinforcement Learning
Risk-taking (Psychology)
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Adults’ and Children’s Sampling Strategy in Active Function Learning

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Our ability to learn functional relations (i.e., relations between inputs and outputs) by gathering relevant information from the environment for ourselves is essential to both …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Zhou, Caiqin (creator)
Buchsbaum, Daphna (Advisor)
Sobel, Dave (Reader)
Lucas, Christopher (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Cognitive Development
Active learning
Function learning
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Age-Related Changes in Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing Mediating Object Recognition

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Neurocognitive aging is associated with distinct patterns of changes in task-related brain activities in the aging brain. However, the brain mechanisms underpinning such changes are …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Lai, Leslie Yunhsuan (creator)
Heindel, William (Advisor)
Festa, Elena (Reader)
Song, Joo-Hyun (Reader)
Badre, David (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Visual perception
Cognitive neuroscience
Neurocognitive Aging
Cognitive psychology
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Aging Effects on Task-Evoked Pupillary Responses

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Abstract of Aging Effects on Task-Evoked Pupillary Reponses, by Mingjian He, Degree ScM., Brown University, May 2018. Previous studies have found decreased cell counts and …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
He, Mingjian (creator)
Heindel, William (Advisor)
Frank, Michael (Reader)
Badre, David (Reader)
Festa, Elena (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
cognitive functioning
Aging
Pupillometry
Locus coeruleus
Noradrenaline
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Aligning deep neural networks with biological vision

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This work explores to what extent deep neural networks (DNNs) can serve as accurate and biologically meaningful models of human visual processing. While DNNs have …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Rodriguez, Ivan Felipe (creator)
Serre, Thomas (Advisor)
Sheinberg, David (Reader)
Warren, William (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Computer Vision
Cognitive science
Neural Networks
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An Online Behavioral Research Paradigm Using Amazon Mechanical Turk, JSPsych & PsiTurk: A Pilot Study Assessing Hierarchical Abstract Sequential Processing

Description:
Given the availability and ease of use of online recruitment platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, internet behavioral research studies have grown in number and …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Chang, Janet L. (creator)
Desrochers, Theresa (thesis advisor)
McKim, Theresa (thesis advisor)
Brown University. Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Cognitive neuroscience
JavaScript (Computer program language)
Cognition
Prefrontal cortex
Internet research
Language:
English
Collection:
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Anaphoric Expressions in A'ingae

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Anaphora represents an important grammatical feature with much theoretical and empirical value. Its forms and functions vary greatly cross-linguistically, and many frameworks have been proposed …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Zheng, Holly (creator)
AnderBois, Scott (thesis advisor)
Brown University. Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Linguistics
Language:
English
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Are You 'Shore' It Looks Farther Away: Does the Energetic Cost of Walking On Sand Influence Perception of the Spatial Layout or the Affordance for Action?

Description:
The present experiments investigated the influence of energetic cost of walking to a target on both the visually perceived egocentric distance of the target and …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Baxter, Brittany Ashton (creator)
Warren, William (Advisor)
Welch, Leslie (Reader)
Song, Joo-Hyun (Reader)
Domini, Fulvio (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
distance perception
ecological optics
embodied perception
Collection:
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Attractor Dynamics in Large Scale Recurrent Neural Networks

Description:
Biological brains are dynamic. Recent advances in electrophysiology and neuroimaging have helped uncover various mechanisms through which brains construct and utilize rich variations in neural …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Govindarajan, Lakshmi Narasimhan (creator)
Serre, Thomas (Advisor)
Frank, Michael (Reader)
Badre, David (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Neural networks (Computer science)
Computational neuroscience
Deep Learning
Attractors (Mathematics)
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Behavioral opportunism: Neural and behavioral adaptations to adverse early life environments

Description:
Adverse experiences in childhood, ranging from neglect to resource scarcity to abuse, alter developmental trajectories and increase risk for reward-related psychopathologies. In humans, exposure to …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Gallo, Meghan Elizabeth (creator)
Frank, Michael (Advisor)
Burwell, Rebecca (Reader)
Moore, Christopher (Reader)
Bath, Kevin (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Decision making
Dopamine
Dopamine--Receptors
Reinforcement learning
Reward learning
Early Life Stress
Early Life Adversity
childhood abuse
Behavioral Opportunism
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Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processes Underlying LC-NA System Activity Revealed by Simultaneous Pupillometry and EEG

Description:
This combined EEG/pupillometry study examined whether activity within the locus coeruleus-noradrenergic (LC-NA) system can be elicited by infrequent stimuli under both bottom-up (stimulus driven) and …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Desmond, Grace M (creator)
Festa, Elena (thesis advisor)
Heindel, William (thesis advisor)
Badre, David (reader)
Brown University. Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Electroencephalography
Alzheimer's disease
Pupillometry
Locus coeruleus
Language:
English
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Brown University Class of 2023

Description:
Even as religious devotion becomes less and less mainstream, undergraduate students continue to practice religion despite the friction with which it often grinds against the …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Tully, Daniel (creator)
McCullough, Fr. Edmund (thesis advisor)
Sloman, Steven (reader)
Brown University. Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Ethics
Religion
Students
Religiousness
Christian ethics
Language:
English
Collection:
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Can you follow your friends? Effects of ensemble averaging, attention, and grouping when following a crowd.

Description:
Models of collective motion assume that pedestrians average over the entire neighborhood. However, there are many situations in which pedestrians are not averaging, such as …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Willcoxon, Meghan Kristina (creator)
Warren, William (Advisor)
Song, Joo-Hyun (Reader)
Welch, Leslie (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Attention
Perception
Virtual reality
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