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The Impact of Computer-based Cognitive Treatment on Language Skills in an Individual with Aphasia
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The cognitive theory of aphasia, which purports that the language impairments found in people with aphasia are due to underlying cognitive impairments, rather than to interruption of linguistic-specific areas of the brain, has been gaining clinical and research interest in recent years. Indeed,...
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The Neural Encoding of Heterospecific Vocalizations in the Avian Pallium: An Ethological Approach
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Songbirds (order Passeriformes, suborder Oscines) have captured the attention of scientists and non-scientists alike with their vocal signals. The black-capped chickadee (genus Poecile) uses its namesake call, chick-a-dee, to convey a variety of information. In Chapter 2 and 3, I examine the...
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The Role of Attention and Perception in the Control of Visually Guided and Memory-Guided Actions
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I investigated the attentional and perceptional mechanisms involved in the control of visually guided and memory-guided actions in two experiments using event-related potentials (ERPS). In the first dual task experiment, participants performed reciprocal aiming in visually guided and...
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Fall 2018
Surprisingly, pigeons have been shown to sacrifice food rewards to get information about the upcoming outcome when making choices in a delay decision task. For instance, when choosing between an option which offers a reward 100% of the time after a delay (e.g. 10 s), versus an option that gives...
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Fall 2011
Unlike secondary world fantasy, such as that of J.R.R. Tolkien, what I call syncretic fantasy is typically set in a world that overlaps significantly with the contemporary "real" or cognitive majoritarian world in which we (i.e. most North Americans) profess to live our lives. In terms of popular...
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Understanding the Impact of Speech-Language Therapy on the Quality of Life of People with Aphasia: A Collective Case Study
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Aphasia is a communication disorder caused by damage to areas in the brain responsible for language, resulting in speaking, understanding, reading, and writing difficulties. Speech- Language Pathologists (SLPs) provide various modalities of therapy for people with aphasia (PWA) through various...