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Pelletier, Francis J., Elio, Renée
This study examines the problem of belief revision, defined as deciding which of several initially accepted sentences to disbelieve, when new information presents a logical inconsistency with the initial set. In the first three experiments, the initial sentence set included a conditional...
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Fall 2017
Demands on directed attention can result in attentional fatigue, inhibiting our ability to voluntarily direct attention to important features of our surroundings. Inherently fascinating environments, such as nature, have been shown to promote recovery of attention. Environments that do not...
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Fall 2013
The acoustic characteristics associated with a vowel category may vary greatly when produced by different speakers. Despite this variation, human listeners are typically able to identify vowel sounds with a good degree of accuracy. One approach to this issue is that listeners interpret vowel...
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Spring 2022
How does the brain represent musical properties? Even with our growing understanding of the cognitive neuroscience of music (Abbott, 2002; Peretz and Zatorre, 2003; Peretz and Zatorre, 2005; Zatorre and McGill, 2005), the answer to this question remains unclear. One method for conceiving possible...
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2022-10-29
SSHRC IG awarded 2023: Existing cultural psychology literature suggests variations in psychological processes between East Asians and North Americans under the rubric of independent vs. interdependent social orientation. However, scholars have called for the necessity of globalizing research...
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Fall 2013
Cognitive deficits affect approximately 50% of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and are associated with disease-related neurodegeneration. Prior MS-studies found decision making impairments uncorrelated with patients’ cognitive functions. Brain correlates of decision making in MS have not been...
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Spring 2017
BACKGROUND. Making one’s own decisions is an important component of autonomy and expression of one’s identity. After an individual has a stroke or other neurological injury, he or she may experience a disruption to their ability to speak, understand, read, and or write (aphasia). Furthermore,...