Newborn infants are sensitive to their native language prosody. When children begin to speak, they are able to approximate adult-like intonation patterns and align these …
Human brain processing declines with aging and reveals cognitive and perceptual impairments. Previous researches on cognitive neuroscience in aging have provided evidence on the relationship …
The representational format and the specific feature codes used by face processing are key issues in the study of both human and automatic face recognition. …
This dissertation examines how brain regions respond to different types of competition during word comprehension and word production. A series of three studies attempted to …
Previous research has questioned the causal Bayes net formalism reporting the violation of the Markov principle which lies at the heart of the causal Bayes …
Adaptation can have an immediate effect on the subsequently viewed stimuli; discrimination thresholds decrease at the adapted stimulus orientation and increase for orientations away from …
This dissertation critically examined the structure of human spatial knowledge by testing three general hypotheses: the Euclidean, Topological, and Stability Hypotheses. The present experiments selectively …
Causal reasoning is central to people's thinking about the world and how to manipulate it (Sloman, 2005). Surprisingly, our knowledge about causal reasoning has had …
An animal’s estimate of time intervals is variable. When time intervals are an important feature of a task, the animal should account for this variability …
During auditory language comprehension, bottom-up acoustic cues in the sensory signal are critical to the recognition of spoken words. However, listeners are also sensitive to …
In this thesis we begin to articulate a computational theory that provides a neuronal-leveldescription of the macro-level function of the visual system, and we propose …
It seems intuitively obvious that active exploration of a new environment would lead to better spatial learning than passive exposure. However, the literature on this …
Learning and action selection have been well studied within the confines of a stable environment. These efforts have led to significant advances in our understanding …