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Does methylation of the brain promoter region of Cyp19 impact the development of sex-typical psychological traits?
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While humans demonstrate sexually differentiated psychological and behavioural traits, such as aggression, there is a vast amount of within-sex variation for these traits. Further, the effect size of these sex differences is relatively small and there is a large amount of overlap between males...
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Does success matter? Nest failure does not affect copying in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), contrary to the copy-when-dissatisfied strategy
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Social learning theorists have developed social learning strategies to predict when an individual is most likely to copy the behaviour of another individual, based on the benefits and costs social learning might convey. Much of the research investigating social learning strategies has come from...
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Fall 2020
Early life exposure to stress can have life-long effects on an organism. These effects may be detrimental, or they may be adaptive if they allow the organism to develop an adult phenotype which better matches the environment predicted by the stressor. Early life stress influences many traits,...
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EEG in the wild: Using real-world tasks to measure changes in EEG rhythms related to human Attention.
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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...