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Spring 2022

Goncalves Mussi, Matheus

BACKGROUND: Children experiencing neurological impairment can experience limitations in their functional abilities. For people with severe physical disabilities, brain-computer interfaces (BCI) are a potential solution to access computers when other assistive technologies prove to be...

Fall 2024

Fan, Xinyi

In the field of sleep research, the quantitative analysis of electroencephalography (EEG) data acquired during sleep offers invaluable insights. However, the presence of artifacts in such data can severely distort analytical outcomes. Therefore, this study aims to develop an innovative artifact...

Fall 2017

Kuziek, Jonathan WP

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...

Fall 2022

Sheldon, Sarah S

The neural mechanisms underlying visual perception and attention continue to elude researchers despite decades of research. Developing novel methodology and improved analytical techniques may provide key insights into these processes that traditional approaches have been unable to reveal. In this...

Fall 2023

Robles, Daniel

Understanding attentional processes in everyday environments is an important step to further understanding the EEG rhythms that, for decades, have been studied in isolated indoor chambers. The present dissertation aimed to investigate the dynamics of EEG oscillations using mobile settings. The...

Fall 2017

Bertrand, Jennifer K

Perception is to sensation what illusion is to the actual state of the world. How we sense information varies greatly from how we ultimately perceive and understand that information - a result of top-down and bottom-up processes at work. Work from over 100 years ago (Brucke, 1864) found an...

Spring 2019

Devraj-Kizuk, Sayeed A.

The major question addressed by neuroscience is how behavior can be explained through knowledge of the brain. Given the unobservable nature of mind, cognitive neuroscientists depend on observations of the electrical activity of the brain gleaned through electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings to...

Spring 2023

Ling, Sijie

As we listen to spoken language, the brain performs multiple levels of computation, from understanding individual words to comprehending the arc of a story. Recently, computational models have been developed that also process text on multiple levels. These models, called multi-timescale long...

Spring 2022

Saha, Rohan

Infants start developing rudimentary language skills and can start understanding simple words well before their first birthday. This development has also been shown primarily using Event Related Potential (ERP) techniques to find evidence of word comprehension in the infant brain. While these...

Fall 2010

Sharma, Arjun V

The acquisition of a behavioural response (learning) and the later retrieval of this response (memory) are separated by an endogenous biological process which consolidates the temporary neural changes initiated by training. Intracerebral infusions of stimulants to the hippocampus potentiate this...