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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Spatial context is known to affect how a stimulus is perceived. A variety of illusions spanning all visual modalities have been attributed to contextual processing, …
Humans are remarkably adept at generalizing knowledge between experiences in a way that can be difficult for computers. Often, this entails generalizing constituent pieces of …
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 …
