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 …
This dissertation presents a line of research that investigates the information people use to pursue and evade other pedestrians and to perceive whether other pedestrians …
Echolocating bats form an acoustic image of their world derived from echoes of their emitted sounds. In their natural environment, bats must avoid interfering clutter …
This study applies and compares popular methods in experimental phonology in the investigation of phonetic convergence in Mandarin. Differences induced by the existence of self-priming …
The likelihood of functional recovery following neural injury decreases with species complexity, maturity, and whether the injury affects the CNS or PNS. Adult vertebrates unlikely …
Visual perceptual learning (VPL) goes through temporal dynamics of consolidation after the offset of visual training. This temporal dynamics of consolidation consists of at least …
