Browsing by Author "Geraci, Lisa"
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Biondi, Marisa E (2018-12-03)There is a large body of work demonstrating that infants are sensitive to the distinction between human and mechanical agents from the early months of life, with different expectations for how those agents move and interact ...
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Rhee, Joo Hyun (2015-05-04)Evidence revealing the importance of chronic exercise for improving general physical health and maintaining long‐term successful cognitive function is widely available but less information addressing the potential efficacy ...
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Deforrest, Ross L. (2018-03-28)Regulatory fit effects have been hypothesized to be caused by a “feeling of rightness.” I applied the regulatory fit framework to the novel area of memory confidence in a test of the proposed feeling of rightness mechanism. ...
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Corbisier, Barbara Lynn (2009-05-15)Highly affective memories have been thought to be longer lasting and more detailed than other memories, and many experimental results have supported this assertion. The apparent robustness of these memories, however, may ...
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Choudhury, Tabina Khanom (2020-05-13)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes cognitive impairment, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and reduced adaptive function. In particular, reduced adaptive function can present challenges ...
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Lowe, Deborah Anne (2017-06-12)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is associated with progressive cognitive declines that classically affect memory in the mild stages of the disease and gradually impair all other cognitive functions. Although certain changes in ...
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Handy, Justin Dean (2015-04-24)The debate over the existence of recovered memories remains a divisive issue for mental health practitioners and cognitive scientists, in part due to a limited understanding of the processes underlying motivated forgetting ...
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Kaur, Navneet (2010-07-14)The purpose of this thesis was to determine whether practice-induced adjustments and retention of a goal directed isometric motor accuracy task were similar between ipsilateral upper and lower limb and whether there is an ...
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Mcculloch, Kendall C (2014-12-17)Subjective age, or how old one feels, is associated with one’s mental and physical well-being. Recent research suggests that subjective age may be malleable and can be affected by contextual variables. This proposed study ...
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Manzano, Isabel (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)The following experiments looked at how encoding information and available cues at test can influence context effects. More specifically, the present experiments investigated the overshadowing and outshining hypotheses. ...
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Tirso, Robert Michael (2021-06-16)Metacognition is defined as awareness and beliefs about one’s own cognitive processes and abilities. Research on metacognition suggests that the accuracy of metacognitive self- and other-judgments is largely determined by ...
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Handy, Justin Dean (2012-02-14)Laboratory methods for studying memory blocking and recovery include directed forgetting, retrieval-induced forgetting, and retrieval bias or memory blocking procedures. These methods primarily use word lists. For example, ...
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Hawkins, Laura Bess (2014-04-24)Past adolescent and adult literature has pinpointed clear preferences for male and female body shapes within the context of reproductive fitness and mate selection. However, the question still remains whether individuals ...
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Hughes, Matthew Lane (2014-07-29)How old one feels, one’s subjective age, has been shown to predict important psychological and health outcomes. However, few studies have demonstrated a relationship between subjective age and cognitive performance. The ...
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Byrne, Kaileigh A (2017-06-19)Externalizing proneness, or impulse control and substance abuse problems, has been broadly associated with dysregulation in reward sensitivity. The goal of this investigation was to systematically determine the effects ...
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Xiao, Kunchen (2016-05-25)This dissertation investigates how cognitive control influences subliminal semantic processing. Unlike the traditional view that unconscious processing is stereotypical and independent of cognitive control, recent evidence ...
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Choudhury, Tabina Khanom (2018-03-02)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes cognitive impairment, reduced functional status, and behavioral disturbances. As patients become increasingly impaired across these domains ...
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Guillory, Jimmeka J. (2010-07-14)Younger and older adults’ susceptibility to the continued influence of inferences in memory was examined using a paradigm implemented by Wilkes and Leatherbarrow. Research has shown that younger adults have difficulty ...
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Manzano, Isabel (2011-10-21)Product placement, an advertising trend that places a brand within the context of an information medium, has emerged as an effective means of increasing brand recognition. The practice has not been thoroughly examined in ...
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Saenz, Gabriel Diego (2019-06-12)Students are often overconfident (or otherwise metacognitively inaccurate) about how they will perform on exams, a condition that can have negative consequences for students as they may stop studying prematurely and perform ...