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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)People can learn a new concept almost perfectly from just a single example, yet machine learning algorithms typically require hundreds or thousands of examples to perform similarly. People can also use their learned concepts ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This thesis proposes a miethodology for the design of man-machine interfaces by combining top-down and bottom-up processes in vision. From a computational perspective, we propose that the scientific-cognitive question of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Language comprehension requires syntactic, semantic and pragmatic processing. The work presented in this thesis clarifies the role that the resource demands of syntactic and referential processing play in sentence complexity. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Visual object recognition (categorization and identification) is one of the most fundamental cognitive functions for our survival. Our visual system has the remarkable ability to convey to us visual object and category ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The field of neuroscience has the potential to address profound questions including explaining how neural activity enables complex behaviors and conscious experience. However, currently the field is a long way from ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Chronic stress has been linked to variation in gene regulation in the hippocampus (HIP) among other areas. These lead to cytoskeletal and volumetric rearrangements in various nuclei of the central nervous system and are ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)The roles played by cortical inhibitory neurons in experience-dependent plasticity and learning are not well understood. Here we evaluate the participation of parvalbumin-expressing (PV+) GABAergic neurons in two forms of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)In this thesis, I investigate how scenes are represented by the human visual system and how observers use visual information to reorient themselves within a space. Scenes, like objects, are three-dimensional spaces that ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Interpreting the results of visual object perception experiments is too often ill-posed due to the disparate and sparse choice of stimuli. To address this problem, we have developed a flexible new technique called Random ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)People vary significantly across multiple cognitive domains, and that variation may be related to individual differences in the intrinsic functional architecture of the human brain. Such individual differences can be ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)To have a theory of mind is to be able to explain and predict human behaviours and experiences in terms of mental states: beliefs, desires, goals, thoughts, and feelings. In chapters 1 and 2, I use functional magentic ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Human language is notable for its expressivity; syntax is powerful and allows for potentially unlimited new sentences. But even simple transitive sentences like "I broke the lamp" provide a sophisticated tool for communication, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)The Words-and-Rules theory (WR) posits that different mental processes underlie regular and irregular past tense formation: regular forms are rule-generated ('add -ed'), whereas irregular forms are retrieved from memory. ...
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