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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Learning to direct behaviors towards goals is a central function of all vertebrate nervous systems. Initial learning often involves an exploratory phase, in which actions are flexible and highly variable. With repeated ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)How do children learn their first words? Do they do it by gradually accumulating information about the co-occurrence of words and their referents over time, or are words learned via quick social inferences linking what ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)The origins and adaptive significance of music, long an elusive target, are now active topics of empirical study. I argue that empirical results can constrain discussions of the adaptive significance of music by testing ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Studies in the past decade have established gene expression as an inherently variable process. Accompanying this exciting finding is a fundamental question: how do physiological events, such as cell fate specification, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Complex synthetic genetic programs promise unprecedented control over cellular metabolism and behavior. In this thesis, I describe the design and development of a synthetic genetic program to detect conditions underlying ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis introduces EMRE, an expectation-based model of referring expressions. EMRE is proposed as a model of non-syntactic dependencies - in particular, discourse-level semantic dependencies that bridge sentence gaps. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)To what extent can experience shape perception? In what ways does perception vary across people or even within the same person at different times? This thesis presents three lines of research examining the role of experience ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Ecologically relevant search typically requires making rapid and strategic eye movements in complex, cluttered environments. Attention allocation is known to be influenced by low level image features, visual scene context, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)The mammalian superior colliculus (SC) coordinates visual, somatosensory, and auditory stimuli to guide animal behavior. The superficial layers (sSC) receive visual information via two major afferent projections: 1) A ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The superior colliculus (SC) is a multi-layered midbrain structure responsible for multimodal integration and orienting behavior in mammals. The superficial layers of the SC (sSC) receive direct visual input from retinal ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The ease with which we recognize visual objects belies the computational difficulty of this feat. Despite the concerted efforts of both biological and computer vision research communities over the last forty years, human-level ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Face recognition is one of the most important problems our visual system must solve. Here I used magnetoencephalography (MEG) in an effort to characterize the sequence of cognitive and neural processes underlying this ...
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