Browsing Brain and Cognitive Sciences - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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Variational methods for inference and estimation in graphical models
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
Visual cortical plasticity : the role of parvalbumin expressing inhibitory neurons and abnormalities in models of neurodevelopmental disorders
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)The roles played by cortical inhibitory neurons in experience-dependent plasticity and learning are not well understood. Here we evaluate the participation of parvalbumin-expressing (PV+) GABAergic neurons in two forms of ... -
Visual features for scene recognition and reorientation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)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 ... -
Visual perception and memory after anterior temporal-lobe lesions in humans
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
Visual perception and representation of objects and faces
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)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 ... -
Wandering minds, restless brains and mindful thinking : a network-based perspective
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)People vary significantly across multiple cognitive domains, and that variation may be related to individual differences in the intrinsic functional architecture of the human brain. Such individual differences can be ... -
What functional magnetic resonance imaging can tell us about theory of mind
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)To have a theory of mind is to be able to explain and predict human behaviours and experiences in terms of mental states: beliefs, desires, goals, thoughts, and feelings. In chapters 1 and 2, I use functional magentic ... -
Who did what to whom : developmental perspectives on the meaning and communication of transitive events
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Human language is notable for its expressivity; syntax is powerful and allows for potentially unlimited new sentences. But even simple transitive sentences like "I broke the lamp" provide a sophisticated tool for communication, ... -
Words and rules in the brain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)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. ... -
Young children's reasoning about their own and others' cognition
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)This thesis aims to address a central question in cognitive science: how we reason about our own and others' cognition. Representing the self and others as distinct individuals is a fundamental epistemological feature of ...
