Affective valence influences both our cognition and our perception of the world. For example, the speed and quality with which we recognize objects in a …
Underage drinking is a serious public health concern in the US in part because earlier ages of drinking onset are associated with more severe alcohol …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Making decisions often requires quick and intuitive assessments of the likelihood of unobserved events. People make such judgments with little effort, quickly and systematically. The …
The premise of the emerging field of computational psychiatry is to use models from computational cognitive neuroscience to gain deeper insights into mental illness. In …
Growing bodies of research emphasize the importance of representing both context and expected value (EV) in support of flexible behavior. Both representations have been pinned …
A wealth of research shows how the dopaminergic frontostriatal system incrementally learns from<br/> rewards and punishments. Midbrain dopamine cells show phasic firing rate changes in …
Preterm children are at risk for language delays and deficits. By 2 years, very preterm/low birthweight children tend to have smaller vocabularies and use less …
The last two decades in Cognitive Science have seen the productive application of Causal Graphical Models (Pearl, 2000; Spirtes, Glymour & Scheines, 1993) to theories …
Researchers have long sought to identify the factors contributing to individual differences in vocabulary development. Some attributed these to individuals' speech processing abilities, and others …
In a dilemma of trust, decision making involves two competing concerns: the egocentric evaluation of potential outcomes and understanding the other party’s point of view. …
The ability to estimate time is vital for adaptation and orientation in the physical and social environment we live in. However, our subjective experience of …
Abstract of “Enhancing Visual Perceptual Learning Through Reward and Sleep” by Aaron V. Berard, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2016 Visual perceptual learning (VPL) is defined …
Recognizing the content of human actions is an important skill in our adaptation to the environment. We rely on our visual system to constantly interpret …
The goal of this thesis is to investigate the question of developmental continuity in language acquisition. In particular, it aims to address whether representations of …
The visual world holds valuable communicative information for the language learning infant. Emerging evidence suggests that the way an infant distributes his or her attention …
Microaggressions are unintentional offenses perpetrated by a majority group member on a minority group member and highlight group membership since they involve implicit stereotypes or …