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The Toppler Effect : irregular leader transitions and the rate of state failure recovery
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
State failure is becoming increasingly prevalent across the globe, creating human suffering, black markets, lost economic opportunities, and safe havens for militant actors. It is imperative that the international community ...
Prism adaptation in a case of cerebellar agenesis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
Normal subjects adapt quickly to the displacing effects of prism goggles. A measure of this adaptation comes from the negative aftereffects in reaching that subjects show after the prism goggles are removed. Neural circuitry ...
Postnatal development of brainstem cholinergic inputs to the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the domesticated ferret, Mustela putorius furo
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
The ferret dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) undergoes two periods of retinal afferent segregation during postnatal development. The first establishes the eye-specific laminae, A and A 1, and the second establishes ...
Anthropomorphic bias in naming
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Seeking the neural basis of grammar : English noun and verb morphological processing investigated with rapid event-related fMRI and intracortical electrophysiology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
(cont.) the functionality of the fMRI data analysis and visualization tools used at Massachusetts General Hospital. I analyze and interpret an 18-subject fMRI experiment I ran using the new task design and software tools. ...
Judicious imitation : children differentially imitate deterministically and probabilistically effective actions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Three studies look at whether the assumption of causal determinism (the assumption that all else being equal, causes generate effects deterministically) affects children's imitation of modeled actions. We show that, even ...
Center-embedding and self-embedding in human language processing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
Investigating the influence of LH-projecting BLA neurons upon motivated behavioral responding and appetitive learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
To optimize survival, organisms must be able to learn contingencies between external stimuli and rewards and appropriately respond to these associations. Deficits in reward-related learning or reward-seeking are thought ...
The early detection of motion boundaries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
Perceptual decomposition as inference
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)