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Dissociated Responses to AI: Legal AI Advisors Are Persuasive But Not Trustworthy?

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Abstract of DISSOCIATED RESPONSES TO AI: LEGAL AI ADVISORS ARE PERSUASIVE BUT NOT TRUSTWORTHY?, by ZEYNEP AYDIN, Degree ScM., Brown University, MAY 2024. The rapid …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Aydin, Zeynep (creator)
Malle, Bertram (Advisor)
Netter, Julia (Reader)
Sloman, Steven (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
human-computer interaction
Artificial intelligence
Reasoning
Social cognition
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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Do People Learn Norms More Efficiently Than Other Rules?

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In the current project, I examined how efficiently people learn social norms. Specifically, I investigated the relative learning efficiency for social norms by comparing it …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Kim, Boyoung (creator)
Malle, Bertram (Advisor)
Amso, Dima (Reader)
Badre, David (Reader)
Frank, Michael (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Social norms
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Theses and Dissertations
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Does faulty 3D perception guide action? - Evidence from sensorimotor adaptation

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Visually guided action is successful even when the human perceptual system fails to recover veridical 3D structures of objects. The dual visual stream account explains …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Lim, Chaeeun (creator)
Domini, Fulvio (Advisor)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
3D perception
Visuomotor adaptation
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Theses and Dissertations
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Early Indicators of Language Delay in Preterm Infants

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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 …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Molina Onario, Glenda (creator)
Morgan, James (Director)
Blumstein, Sheila (Reader)
Amso, Dima (Reader)
Brown University. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Cognitive Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Longitudinal Study
Preterm Birth
Receptive Language Skills
Language Outcomes
Structural equation modeling
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
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Edge Replacement as a Model of Causal Reasoning

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The last two decades in Cognitive Science have seen the productive application of Causal Graphical Models (Pearl, 2000; Spirtes, Glymour & Scheines, 1993) to theories …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Buchanan, David W. (creator)
Sobel, David (Director)
Tenenbaum, Joshua (Reader)
Spoehr, Kathryn (Reader)
Serre, Thomas (Reader)
Brown University. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Cognitive Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
causal graphical models
causal reasoning
cognitive development
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
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Effects of the Acoustic Properties of Infant-Directed Speech on Infant Word Recognition and Vocabulary Size

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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 …
Year:
2008
Contributor:
Song, Jae Yung (creator)
Demuth, Katherine (director)
Morgan, James (reader)
Blumstein, Sheila (reader)
Brown University. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Linguistics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
infant-directed speech
acoustic
vocabulary size
Sound
Word recognition
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Linguistics
Theses and Dissertations
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Egocentrism and perspective taking in dilemmas of trust

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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. …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Evans, Anthony M (creator)
Krueger, Joachim (Director)
Wright, Jack (Reader)
Dal Bo, Pedro (Reader)
Brown University. Psychology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
behavioral economics
trust and reciprocity
Economics--Psychological aspects
Decision making
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Psychology
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Elucidating the Role of Attention and Emotion on Subjective Time Perception

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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 …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Zephrani, Zohar R (creator)
Church, Russell (Director)
Martino, Elena (Reader)
Welch, Leslie (Reader)
Brown University. Psychology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Time estimation
Arousal
Time perception
Attention
Emotions
Arousal (Physiology)
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Psychology
Theses and Dissertations
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Enhancing Visual Perceptual Learning Through Reward and Sleep

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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 …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Berard, Aaron V (creator)
Watanabe, Takeo (Director)
Sasaki, Yuka (Reader)
Welch, Leslie (Reader)
Brown University. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Cognitive Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
visual perceptual learning
reward
consolidation
Sleep
Plasticity
Perception
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
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Evaluating and Improving Models of Visual Perceptual Learning

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Abstract of Evaluating and Improving Models of Visual Perceptual Learning by Tyler Barnes-Diana, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2024. An evaluative framework for investigating computational models …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Barnes-Diana, Tyler (creator)
Watanabe, Takeo (Advisor)
Sasaki, Yuka (Reader)
Nassar, Matthew (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Perception
Learning
neural network
reweighting
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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Examining baseline relations among parent-child interaction, STEM learning and engagement

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The relationship between parental involvement and child engagement in STEM tasks has become a focal point in understanding educational dynamics within informal learning environments. Parents …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Gin, Skyler (creator)
Boykin, C. Malik (Advisor)
Sobel, David (Advisor)
Li, Jin (Reader)
Buchsbaum, Daphna (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Parent and child
Developmental psychology
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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Exploring Flexible Social Decision-Making in Rats with a New Behavioral Paradigm

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Given that rats are both highly social animals and are commonly used in cognitive research, they are a prime candidate to investigate underlying mechanisms of …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Mazumder, Maya (creator)
Burwell, Rebecca (thesis advisor)
Brown University. Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Cognitive neuroscience
Decision making
Rats
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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Exploring the Role of Motion and Depth in Action Perception

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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 …
Year:
2015
Contributor:
Arslan, Ali (creator)
Thomas, Serre (Director)
William, Warren (Reader)
David, Sheinberg (Reader)
Brown University. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Cognitive Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
action recognition
visual representations
sparse coding
computational modeling
Vision
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
Theses and Dissertations
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From Features to Words: A Study of Developmental Continuity

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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 …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Ren, Jie (creator)
Blumstein, Sheila (Director)
Morgan, James (Reader)
Polka, Linda (Reader)
Amso, Dima (Reader)
Brown University. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Cognitive Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
developmental continuity
features
lexical representations
phonetic details
perceptual asymmetry
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
Theses and Dissertations
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From Retrieval to Construction: Neural Oscillatory Dynamics of Conjunctive Binding Across Memory and Perception

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Decades of research have examined feature integration using behavioral and neurophysiological approaches, yet a unifying framework linking its neural mechanisms across online perception and memory …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Ip, Jessica (creator)
Heindel, William (Advisor)
Festa, Elena (Reader)
Simmons, Andrea (Reader)
Nassar, Matt (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Memory
Aging
Neural oscillations
Mild cognitive impairment
Feature integration
Visual search
Electroencephalography (EEG)
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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Gaze Following and Attention to Faces in Infancy Predict Language Development

Description:
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 …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Tenenbaum, Elena Jean (creator)
Morgan, James (Director)
Sobel, David (Reader)
Amso, Dima (Reader)
Brown University. Psychology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
face scanning
gaze following
language
Infants
Eye tracking
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Psychology
Theses and Dissertations
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Homophones: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Description:
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 …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Lu, Youtao (creator)
Morgan, James (Advisor)
Feiman, Roman (Reader)
Lupker, Stephen (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Spoken word recognition
Homophone
Cross-linguistic studies
Ambiguity resolution
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Theses and Dissertations
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How Can Deep Neural Networks Inform Theory in Cognitive Science?

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Over the last decade, deep neural networks (DNNs) have transformed the state of the art in artificial intelligence. In domains such as language production and …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
McGrath, Sam Whitman (creator)
Feiman, Roman (Advisor)
Pavlick, Ellie (Reader)
Frank, Michael (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Natural language processing (Computer science)
Philosophy
Cognitive science
Artificial intelligence
Large Language Model
deep neural network
Connectionism
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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How Microaggressions Differ from Other Norm Violations: The Role of Social Group Membership

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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 …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Morhayim, Liora (creator)
Malle, Bertram F. (thesis advisor)
Brown University. Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Microaggressions
Social psychology
Intergroup relations
Sexism in language
Social media
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Theses and Dissertations
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
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Human-Dog Visual Interaction

Description:
Dogs are a ubiquitous part of society. Dogs guide blind people, detect explosives, and search disaster zones for missing people. Despite our reliance on dogs …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Pelgrim, Madeline H (creator)
Buchsbaum, Daphna (Advisor)
Malle, Bertram (Reader)
Sobel, David (Reader)
Tellex, Stefanie (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Eye tracking
visual studies
Social cognition
Comparative cognition
Human-animal communication
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Theses and Dissertations
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