Declarative memory has long been known to depend on the medial temporal lobe memory system. Recently, there has been renewed focus on the relationship between …
Computational Modeling is a significant part of cognitive neuroscience. It allows arbitration between suggested models by virtue of quantitative fits to behavioral, brain and other …
Early life adversity (ELA) is associated with altered neural development and increased risk for the development of psychopathology across the lifespan. Rodent models of ELA …
On-line control and model-based control are two general approaches to visual control of human actions. When intercepting a moving target, humans appear to use the …
The local interactions between neighbors serve as the fundamental building blocks that give rise to human crowd behavior, but little is known about the actual …
This thesis introduces mechanism domains as a cognitive representation underlying causal reasoning. It has been observed that people believe they understand causal workings in more …
Abstract of “Mechanisms of Temporal Perceptual Learning” by Ran Xu, Ph.D., Brown University, February 2021 Our ability to estimate and discriminate short temporal intervals can …
Perception of the 3D world is intuitive and effortless. The visual system is capable of processing the complexities in the retinal image to produce percepts …
Our capacity to swiftly and easily send digital images is an advancement unique to the last decade. Facilitated by the rise of online messaging platforms …
Making moral judgments is commonplace in everyday life, but oftentimes the information people use to make such judgments changes with time. Today, new information about …
Real-world events produce both auditory and visual signals that, together, comprise our perceptual experience of that event. At issue is how the brain integrates information …
Progress in deep feedforward neural networks has spawned great successes in many practical applications, but these models struggle to reproduce human-level generalization in tasks that …
How do variable economic conditions affect the work and profession of business lawyers? 19 semi-structured interviews were conducted with practicing business lawyers, categorized in a …
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 …
The medial temporal lobe (MTL) plays important roles in humans and animal cognition, for example, in episodic memory and spatial navigation. In rodents, two prominent …
This thesis project addresses the problem of how 3D information is processed for the planning and execution of grasping movements. It aims to test two …
