The hippocampus is required for the formation, but not storage, of long-term episodic memories. During memory formation, however, the hippocampus is not a lone actor; rather it works in concert with various structures ...

Faces are an important class of visual stimuli, and are thought to be processed differently from objects by the human visual system. Going beyond the false dichotomy of same versus different processing, it is more important ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...