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Tone Sandhi in Ganyu Mandarin

Description:
Tone sandhi in Ganyu, a Mandarin dialect, is relatively complicated. There were only a few descriptive works in existing literature. By using prosodic structure, the …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Gu, Yiming (creator)
Sanker, Chelsea (Advisor)
Cohen Priva, Uriel (Reader)
Morgan, James (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Chinese language--Phonology
Optimality theory (Linguistics)
Tone (Phonetics)
Mandarin dialects--Phonology
Chinese language--Prosodic analysis
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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Top-Down Effects on Speech Perception: An Integrated Computational and Behavioral Approach

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During auditory language comprehension, bottom-up acoustic cues in the sensory signal are critical to the recognition of spoken words. However, listeners are also sensitive to …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Fox, Neal P (creator)
Blumstein, Sheila (Director)
Frank, Michael (Reader)
Morgan, James (Reader)
Brown University. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Cognitive Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
computational modeling
spoken word recognition
top-down processing
sentential context
voice-onset time (VOT)
Bayesian modeling
Speech perception
Aphasia
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
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Towards Systematic Vision: Limits of Convolutional Neural Networks and Future Directions in Oscillatory Coding

Description:
It is argued that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) struggle to represent the relations among items in a visual scene efficiently. We claim this is a …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Ricci, Matthew (creator)
Serre, Thomas (Advisor)
Bienenstock, Elie (Reader)
Frank, Michael (Reader)
Harrison, Matthew (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
dynamical systems
Cognitive science
Neural networks (Computer science)
Computational neuroscience
Deep Learning
kuramoto model
Statistical physics
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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Two-stage Model of Visual Perceptual Learning

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Visual Perceptual Learning (VPL) refers to a long-term enhancement in visual task performance as a result of visual experience. The mechanisms of VPL is constantly …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Tan, Qingleng (creator)
Watanabe, Takeo (Advisor)
Sasaki, Yuka (Reader)
Domini, Fulvio (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Visual perception
visual perceptual learning
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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Type of early life adversity confers differential, sex-dependent effects on early maturational milestones in mice

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Early life adversity (ELA) increases risk for negative health outcomes, with sex disparities in prevalence and form of ELA experienced and risk for neuropsychiatric pathology. …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Demaestri, Camila (creator)
Bath, Kevin (Advisor)
Amso, Dima (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Development
Motor cortex
Early Life Sress
adversity
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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Visual control laws for collision avoidance with moving obstacles

Description:
Most existing models of collision avoidance rely on distance as input, which is not biologically plausible for human pedestrians. Although they can replicate some crowd …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Bai, Jiuyang (creator)
Warren, William (Advisor)
Serre, Thomas (Reader)
Song, Joo-Hyun (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Walking
collision avoidance
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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Visual Recognition with a Large Scale Network of Dynamical Systems

Description:
In this thesis we begin to articulate a computational theory that provides a neuronal-leveldescription of the macro-level function of the visual system, and we propose …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Dimitriadis, Socrates (creator)
Anderson, James (Director)
Domini, Fulvio (Reader)
Serre, Thomas (Reader)
Brown University. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Cognitive Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
visual
recognition
neural
network
dynamical
system
Vision
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
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VR Edits: The Influence of Transition Type on Spatiotemporal Judgments in Virtual Reality

Description:
With the introduction of virtual reality a new question arises: When the viewer is no longer looking at a screen but rather at an immersive …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Hersko-RonaTas, Adam (Creator)
Warren, William (advisor)
Brown University (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
virtual reality
editing
cognition
spatiotemporal judgments
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Theses and Dissertations
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
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Walking Through a Crowd: Modeling Pedestrian Collision Avoidance Behavior

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Walking on our daily commutes, we encounter dozens of other pedestrians but rarely do we collide with them. Previous omniscient collision avoidance models assume 3D …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Veprek, Kyra (creator)
Warren, William (Advisor)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Virtual reality
perception and action
Pedestrians
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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What does the Retrosplenial Cortex Do?

Description:
The function of the retrosplenial cortex (RSC) in human cognition is a topic of rising interest in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience. So far, however, there …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Hwang, Eunkyu (creator)
Burwell, Rebecca (Advisor)
Bath, Kevin (Reader)
Desrochers, Theresa (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
behavioral neuroscience
Electrophysiology
retrosplenial cortex
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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What drives the pupil old/new effect? Recollection, familiarity, and memory strength

Description:
During recognition memory, previously studied ("old") items elicit greater pupil dilation than unstudied ("new") items, known as the pupil old/new effect. Traditionally, this effect is …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Jian, Wen (creator)
Heindel, William C. (Advisor)
Festa, Elena K. (Advisor)
Badre, David (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Memory
Pupillometry
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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What is the Difference Between Active and Passive Spatial Navigation?

Description:
It seems intuitively obvious that active exploration of a new environment would lead to better spatial learning than passive exposure. However, the literature on this …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Chrastil, Elizabeth R (creator)
Warren, William (Director)
Burwell, Rebecca (Reader)
Badre, David (Reader)
Tarr, Michael (Reader)
Brown University. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Cognitive Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Spatial cognition
Navigation
Perception
Virtual reality
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
Theses and Dissertations
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What Makes Lassie Smart? Human Perceptions of Canine Intelligence

Description:
People have strong intuitions about human intelligence, but also dog intelligence. Yet the content or organization of these intuitions remain unknown. Over three experiments, we …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Ross, Miriam (creator)
Buchsbaum, Daphna (Advisor)
Sobel, David (Reader)
Malle, Bertram (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Animals
Dogs
dog intelligence
Animal behavior
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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What you should do (and what you really do) when you don’t know what to do: Information seeking during value based decision making

Description:
Learning and action selection have been well studied within the confines of a stable environment. These efforts have led to significant advances in our understanding …
Year:
2015
Contributor:
Cockburn, Jeffrey A.P (creator)
Frank, Michael (Director)
Badre, David (Reader)
Littman, Michael (Reader)
Cushman, Fiery (Reader)
Brown University. Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Cognitive Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
latent structure
directed exploration
Learning
Latent structure analysis
Language:
English
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Cognitive Sciences
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When Do We Take Other People’s Perspectives? An Investigation into the Contextual Triggers of Visual Perspective Taking

Description:
Humans have remarkable capacities to perceive and understand other minds. Considering and adopting others’ points of view—or visual perspective taking—is a social cognitive capacity foundational …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Zhao, Xuan (creator)
Malle, Bertram F. (Advisor)
Gweon, Hyowon (Reader)
Krueger, Joachim (Reader)
FeldmanHall, Oriel (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Social psychology
perspective taking
egocentrism
gaze
reaching
human-robot interaction
social cognitive development
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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“I Wanted to Challenge Myself!”: Children’s Developing Metacognitive Understanding of Effort in a Building Task

Description:
Few studies have explored the metacognitive mechanisms behind effort-based decision making in dynamic paradigms designed intentionally for young children. In this preregistered study, we introduced …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Kiefer, Sarah L. (creator)
Sobel, David (Advisor)
Buchsbaum, Daphna (Reader)
Shenhav, Amitai (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Decision making
Metacognition
Cognitive Development
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
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