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Towards understanding facial movements in real life
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
It is commonly assumed that there is a reliable one-to-one mapping between a certain configuration of facial movements and the specific emotional state that is supposedly signals. One common way to test this one-to-one ...
Theory-based learning in humans and machines
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Humans are remarkable in their ability to rapidly learn complex tasks from little experience. Recent successes in Al have produced algorithms that can perform complex tasks well in environments whose simple dynamics are ...
The identification and function of English prosodic features
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This thesis contains three sets of studies designed to explore the identification and function of prosodic features in English. The first set of studies explores the identification of prosodic features using prosodic ...
The nature of the working memory system underlying language processing and its relationship to the long-term memory system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This thesis examines two questions concerning the working memory system underlying language processing: (1) To what extent is the working memory system underlying language processing domain-specific? and (2) What is the ...
Learning locative verbs : how universal linking rules constrain productivity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
The emergence of the design stance in early childhood
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
The acquisition of inductive constraints
(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 ...
Combinatorial analysis of sequential firing patterns across multiple neurons decoding memory of sequential spatial experience in rat hippocampus
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
There is broad agreement that the hippocampus is crucially involved in the formation of richly-detailed, long term memories of events in humans. A key aspect of such memories is the temporal order and spatial context of ...
Modification models of conceptual combination
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
Functional transformations of visual input by auditory thalamus and cortex : an experimentally induced visual pathway in ferrets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)