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 …
Visuomotor adaptation is a process engaged in everyday settings because of its critical role in adjusting visually-guided actions, such as reaching. Two processes contribute to …
Models of collective motion assume that pedestrians average over the entire neighborhood. However, there are many situations in which pedestrians are not averaging, such as …
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 …
Cognitive-Related Targets Engaged by Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Systematic Review and Evidence Map Context: Scientific research on the effects of mindfulness has increased drastically in the …
Object heading is a unique, informative rotational motion that allows observers to know where an object is going. We predicted observers could easily attend and …
In this thesis, I explore how objects affect the space around them. I show that spatial information is extracted from even completely novel objects. Information …
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 …
Top-down signals such as attention not only modulate an individual neuron’s activity, but also orchestrate the synchrony in sensory areas. For example, spatial attention selectively …
