Abstract of “Mechanisms of Temporal Perceptual Learning” by Ran Xu, Ph.D., Brown University, February 2021 Our ability to estimate and discriminate short temporal intervals can …
Perception of the 3D world is intuitive and effortless. The visual system is capable of processing the complexities in the retinal image to produce percepts …
Our capacity to swiftly and easily send digital images is an advancement unique to the last decade. Facilitated by the rise of online messaging platforms …
Progress in deep feedforward neural networks has spawned great successes in many practical applications, but these models struggle to reproduce human-level generalization in tasks that …
How do variable economic conditions affect the work and profession of business lawyers? 19 semi-structured interviews were conducted with practicing business lawyers, categorized in a …
Visual selective attention helps to filter irrelevant information, integrate an object’s constituent visual features, and enhance cortical visual processing at the attended location. Motivated by …
The medial temporal lobe (MTL) plays important roles in humans and animal cognition, for example, in episodic memory and spatial navigation. In rodents, two prominent …
This thesis project addresses the problem of how 3D information is processed for the planning and execution of grasping movements. It aims to test two …
This study applies and compares popular methods in experimental phonology in the investigation of phonetic convergence in Mandarin. Differences induced by the existence of self-priming …
The steep increase in political polarization seen in the United States is assumed to be the result of affective polarization, where negative feelings towards political …
Zero-sum bias refers to intuitively judging a scenario to be zero-sum when in fact win-win outcomes are available. While prior research has documented this bias …
In early postnatal life, infants are faced with complex changing and noisy environments that require learning and action. Yet, relatively little is understood about how …
It is well documented that typically developing (TD) adults use of the concept of intentional action to understand ordinary, everyday behaviors. In seven studies, this …
Our daily interaction with the visual world raises questions about how humans identify and categorize visual stimuli. Previous research on the Perceptual Magnet Effect (PME), …
The goal of this dissertation was to investigate how predicted utility influences working memory (WM) and to examine how dopamine influences functional connectivity in brain …
Abstract of Self-Enhancement Bias and Error: Measurement, Perception, and Motivation, by Patrick R. Heck, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2017. Self-enhancement is characterized by the robust …
Abstract of Self-Organization in Human Crowds: The Transition from Averaging to Competition, by Trenton D. Wirth, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2021 The collective motion of …