Browsing by Author "Bortfeld, Heather"
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Wruck, Eric Michael (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Over recent decades, much has been learned about the perceptual capacity that enables infants to recognize and understand language. However, not until very recently have the neural mechanisms that are the substance of ...
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Gerkens, David (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Research in our laboratory has demonstrated blocked and recovered memories within the context of a controlled experiment. The comparative memory paradigm allows for comparisons of recovered memories, continuous memories, ...
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Armstrong, Jennifer R. (2010-01-14)Neuroscientists have uncovered much about the dorsal and ventral visual object processing pathways. However, little is understood about the functional development of these pathways in human infants. Behavioral data has ...
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Fava, Eswen Elizabeth (2009-05-15)Audition is perhaps the most developed and acute sense available to infants at birth. One theory supported by speech and music researchers alike proposes that the auditory system is biased to salient properties such as ...
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Zhang, Xiao (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)This thesis presents an efficient and biologically informed 3D human body morphing technique through data-driven alteration of standardized 3D models. The anthropometric data is derived from a large empirical database and ...
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Beauchamp, Michael S.; Beurlot, Michelle R.; Fava, Eswen; Nath, Audrey R.; Parikh, Nehal A.; Saad, Ziad S.; Bortfeld, Heather; Oghalai, John S.; Balaban, Evan (PloS One, 2011)
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Martinez, Francisco Emigdio (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)While studies suggest that figurative, or non-literal, meanings are automatically activated in single language users, little is known about how language proficiency may influence the automaticity of non-literal meaning ...
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Alexander, Michael B. (2010-07-14)Events of significant impact as recent as hurricane Ike yielded a consistent disturbing truth: we lack sufficient numbers of competent search dog [Canis familiaris] teams. This study was conceived to provide information ...
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Creech, Suzannah K (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)This study was undertaken to determine whether written emotional disclosure of trauma impacted capsaicin induced pain immediately after writing and at a one-month follow-up, and the extent to which a lifetime history of ...
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Creech, Suzannah K. (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Previous research has demonstrated the impact of negative emotional states on pain modulation. The direction of this modulation has been shown to correspond to the arousal level and the valence of the emotional state, ...
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Woods, Rebecca Jindalee (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Recent research suggests that by 4 months of age infants are able to individuate objects using form features, such as shape and size, but surface features, such as pattern and color, are not used until later in the first ...
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Fava, Eswen; Hull, Rachel; Bortfeld, Heather (Frontiers in Psychology, 2011)
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Chen, Hsin-Chin (2009-05-15)A central issue in word recognition is how readers retrieve and select the right representation among others in the mental lexicon. Recently, it has been claimed that recognition of individual words is influenced by the ...
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Rao, Chaitra (2011-08-08)The present research examined whether morphology influences word recognition independently of form-level word properties. Prevailing views attribute cross-linguistic differences in morphological processing to variations ...
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Woods, Rebecca Jindalee (2009-06-02)The ability to individuate objects is one of our most fundamental cognitive capacities. Recent research has revealed that, when objects vary in color or luminance alone, infants fail to individuate until 11.5 months. ...
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Chen, Hsin-Chin; Vaid, Jyotsna; Bortfeld, Heather; Boas, David (2008)Recent fMRI studies comparing the processing of alphabetic versus logographic scripts provide evidence for shared and orthography-speciWc regions of neural activity. The present study used near-infrared spectroscopy to ...
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Nanda, Upali (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)This dissertation counters the visual bias, and the simplistic approach to the senses, in architectural thought, by investigating the connections among different sense modalities (sight, sound, smell, taste and touch). ...
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Patterson, Merryl Joy (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)In two experiments the Weighted Salience Model (WSM) of conceptual combination was examined. Several of the hypotheses set forth in the WSM were evaluated, including the importance of salience of constituent features, ...
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Sappington, Randy Earl (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)People often create novel lexical expressions to efficiently communicate their thoughts to others. Noun-noun phrases, also known as conceptual combinations, serve as an example of these novel expressions. Most of the research ...
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Fava, Eswen Elizabeth (2012-02-14)Both behavioral and neurophysiological data indicate that many factors contribute to how infants tune to their native language(s) in early infancy. However, substantial debate remains regarding the neural mechanisms that ...