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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Human learners routinely make inductive inferences, or inferences that go beyond the data they have observed. Inferences like these must be supported by constraints, some of which are innate, although others are almost ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This work serves as the first comprehensive investigation into typically developing children's acquisition of subject-to-subject (StS) raising. In particular, it asks how English-speaking children come to comprehend a StS ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Most neurons are born during the embryonic period to become the building blocks for a variety of brain circuits. However, two brain regions only start to assemble during the postnatal period. Both brain areas, olfactory ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)We have long wanted to create artifacts that resemble us: artifacts that not only look like us, but act, think and feel like us, with which we can have sympathy and empathy. In particular, the purpose of this thesis work ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)The amygdala is a structure well known for its role in fear and reward learning, but how these mechanisms are used for decision-making is not well understood. Decision-making involves the rapid updating of cue associations ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis is a collection of manuscripts addressing connectivity of neural circuits in cultured hippocampal neurons. These studies begin with an investigation of dopaminergic modulation of excitatory synapses in small ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This thesis studies two key properties of learning algorithms: their generalization ability and their stability with respect to perturbations. To analyze these properties, we focus on concentration inequalities and tools ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis examines article choice and parameter-setting in second language (L2) acquisition. It argues, on the basis of L2-English elicitation and production data, that L2- learners have access to UG-based semantic ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Humans are able to simultaneously perceive the world as discrete, distinct "objects", as well as regions of statistical regularity, or "textures". This is evident in the way we describe our perceptual world. A street is ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)The ability to differentiate between rewarding and threatening stimuli, and engaging the appropriate behavioral response is critical for survival. The Basolateral Amygdala (BLA) is an almond shaped structure in the brain ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)Human concept learning presents a version of the classic problem of induction, which is made particularly difficult by the combination of two requirements: the need to learn from a rich (i.e. nested and overlapping) ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)Estimating motion in scenes containing multiple moving objects remains a difficult problem in computer vision yet is solved effortlessly by humans. In this thesis we present a computational investigation of this astonishing ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis proposes a computational framework for understanding human Theory of Mind (ToM): our conception of others' mental states, how they relate to the world, and how they cause behavior. Humans use ToM to predict ...
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