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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...