Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "humans"

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    • Caregiving as Moral Experience 

      Kleinman, Arthur Michael (Elsevier, 2012)

    • Children’s Use of Geometry for Reorientation 

      Lee, Sang Ah; Spelke, Elizabeth S. (Wiley, 2008)
      Research on navigation has shown that humans and laboratory animals recover their sense of orientation primarily by detecting geometric properties of large-scale surface layouts (e.g. room shape), but the reasons for the ...

    • Evolution of In-Group Favoritism 

      Fu, Feng; Tarnita, Corina Elena; Christakis, Nicholas Alexander; Wang, Long; Rand, David Gertler; Nowak, Martin A. (Nature Publishing Group, 2012)
      In-group favoritism is a central aspect of human behavior. People often help members of their own group more than members of other groups. Here we propose a mathematical framework for the evolution of in-group favoritism ...

    • Gene Prediction with Glimmer for Metagenomic Sequences Augmented by Classification and Clustering 

      Kelley, David Roy; Liu, Bo; Delcher, Arthur L.; Pop, Mihai; Salzberg, Steven L. (Oxford University Press, 2011)
      Environmental shotgun sequencing (or metagenomics) is widely used to survey the communities of microbial organisms that live in many diverse ecosystems, such as the human body. Finding the protein-coding genes within the ...

    • Genome-Wide Detection of Single-Nucleotide and Copy-Number Variations of a Single Human Cell 

      Zong, Chenghang; Chapman, Alec Randolph; Xie, Xiaoliang Sunney (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012)
      Kindred cells can have different genomes because of dynamic changes in DNA. Single cell sequencing is needed to characterize these genomic differences but has been hindered by whole-genome amplification bias, resulting in ...

    • Individual Differences in Amygdala-Medial Prefrontal Anatomy Link Negative Affect, Impaired Social Functioning, and Polygenic Depression Risk 

      Holmes, A. J.; Lee, Phil Hyoun; Hollinshead, M. O.; Bakst, Leah; Roffman, Joshua Lawrence; Smoller, Jordan W; Buckner, Randy Lee (Society for Neuroscience, 2012)
      Individual differences in affective and social processes may arise from variability in amygdala-medial prefrontal (mPFC) circuitry and related genetic heterogeneity. To explore this possibility in humans, we examined the ...

    • Integration of paper-based microfluidic devices with commercial electrochemical readers 

      Nie, Zhihong; Deiss, Frédérique; Liu, Xinyu; Akbulut, Ozge; Whitesides, George M. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010)
      The combination of simple Electrochemical Micro-Paper-based Analytical Devices (E\(\mu\)PADs) with commercially available glucometers allows rapid, quantitative electrochemical analysis of a number of compounds relevant ...

    • Negative Cocaine Effect Expectancies are Associated with Subjective Response to Cocaine Challenge in Recreational Cocaine Users 

      Lundahl, Leslie H.; Lukas, Scott (Elsevier, 2007)
      Although many studies have shown that cognitive effect expectancies are associated with drug use and drug treatment outcomes, few studies have compared effect expectancies with drug response following drug challenge. Healthy ...

    • Two Forms of Spatial Imagery: Neuroimaging Evidence ​ 

      Thompson, William L.; Slotnick, Scott D.; Burrage, Marie S.; Kosslyn, Stephen Michael (SAGE Publications, 2009)
      Spatial imagery may be useful in such tasks as interpreting graphs and solving geometry problems, and even in performing surgery. This study provides evidence that spatial imagery is not a single faculty; rather, visualizing ...

    • Which One? Grounding the Referent Based on Efficient Human-Robot Interaction 

      Ros, Raquel; Lemaignan, Severin; Sisbot, E. Akin; Alami, Rachid; Steinwender, Jasmin; Hamann, Katharina; Warneken, Felix (IEEE, 2010)
      In human-robot interaction, a robot must be prepared to handle possible ambiguities generated by a human partner. In this work we propose a set of strategies that allow a robot to identify the referent when the human partner ...