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 …
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 …
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 …
How synaptic plasticity in-vivo manages diverse properties of biological neural networks remains poorly understood. My collaborators and I address this by examining basic models of …
Homophones are words that share the same pronunciation but have unrelated meanings. They are widespread in world languages, but little is known regarding how their …
Computational Modeling is a significant part of cognitive neuroscience. It allows arbitration between suggested models by virtue of quantitative fits to behavioral, brain and other …
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), …
Many actions that are important for successful behavior require information about an object’s threedimensional (3D) shape. Human observers estimate 3D shape based on patterns of …
Social norms are universally present in human societies. They play an indispensable role in guiding our everyday social behaviors and facilitating coordination among group members. …
U.S. support for marijuana legalization grew from 38% to 65% in 2008-2019. To find the discourse features that preceded and followed the shift, I curated …
Visual Perceptual Learning (VPL) refers to a long-term enhancement in visual task performance as a result of visual experience. The mechanisms of VPL is constantly …
Most existing models of collision avoidance rely on distance as input, which is not biologically plausible for human pedestrians. Although they can replicate some crowd …