Below are recent dissertations that show students in our graduate program working on the cutting edge in their respective fields.
Social Closeness Modulates the Neural Representation and Perception of the Self and Others
Andrea Courtney
The Influence of Retrieval Practice on Casual Learning
Luke Eglington
Crossmodal Representation of Emotion
Beau Sievers
Characterizing Feature Representations in the Human Face-Processing Network with Multivariate Analyses and Encoding Models
Matteo Visconti Castello di Oleggio
Investigating How Conscious Experience Shapes the Distributed Face Processing Network
Jessica Goold
Modeling Affective States: Applications for Psychology and Neuroscience Research
Alison Mattek
Functional and Anatomical Relationships Between the Medial Precentral Cortex, Dorsal Striatum, and Head Direction Cell Circuitry
Max Mehlman
The Geometry of Observed Action Representation During Natural Vision
Samuel Nastase
Cognition, Calculation, and Emotion Regulation: Building an Effective Math Anxiety Intervention in the Lab and in the Classroom
Rachel Pizzie
Marketing to the Adolescent Brain: Neurobiological Vulnerability to Naturalistic Reward Cues Influences Health Risk Outcomes
Kristina Rapuano
Can Self-Regulation Be Improved? An Examination of Neural and Behavioral Evidence
Pin-Hao (Andy) Chen
The Neural Bases and Behavioral Characteristics of Feature Conjunction Learning
Sebastian Frank
Decoding Ambiguity in the Facial Expressions of Others: Neural Underpinnings of Affective Valence Computation
Justin Kim
Success Hangs in the Balance: Outcomes and Predictors of the Relative Balance of Brain Activity to Appetitive Cues
Richard Lopez
Interhemispheric Dynamic Coordination in Face Processing: A Time-Resolved fMRI Decoding Approach
Zhengang Lu
Behavioral and Neural Responses to Affectively Salient Cues: The Influence of Perceived Stress and Control
James Taylor
Dispositional Emotional Expressivity Shapes the Processing of Facial Expression
Annemarie Brown
The Functional Importance of the Head Direction Signal for Homing Behavior
William Butler
Relating Behavioral Control and Brain Development: Insights from Adolescence
Heidi Meyer
How We Connect: Neural Mechanisms Underpinning Human Social Networks
Carolyn Parkinson
Effects of Violent Video Game Play on Attitudes toward Behavioral Deviance: Mechanisms of Self-Involvement, Affective Responses, and Motivated Attitude Change
Anna Prescott
The Mental Workspace as Distributed Neural Network
Alexander Schlegel
Subtypes of Developmental Prosopagnosia: Behavioral and Neural Evidence
Hua Yang
The Nature of Feature Tuning Representations in Occipital, Parietal, and Frontal Cortices During Visual Working Memory Maintenance
Qing Yu
The Structure and Function of Brain Networks Underlying Self-Evaluation
Robert Chavez
The Cognitive Dynamics Underlying Decision-Making: Interactions Between Attention, Memory, and Reward in Action Control
Kanghoon Jung
Using the Eyes to Measure the Mind: Pupil Dilation Dynamics as a Biomarker of Online Attention
Olivia Kang
On the Nature, Mechanisms, and Neural Correlates of Visual Feature Conjunction Learning
Eric Reavis
Affective Decision-Making in Rhesus Monkeys: Reward Order, Risk, and the Roles of the Anterior Insula and Premotor Cortex
Eric Xu
Cortical Representations of Hierarchical Category Learning
Sergey Fogelson
Systematic Replications and Innovations in the Neuroscience of Humor
Sean Guillory
Whole Brain Hyperalignment: Inter-Subject Hyperalignment of Local Representational Spaces
Jyothi Swaroop Guntupalli
Motion and Position Interact at Both Early and Late Stages of the Human Visual System
Peter Jes Kohler
Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Social Motivations
Katherine Powers
Exercise and the Brain: Impacts on Cognition, Neural Function, and Mental Health
Andrea Robinson