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Affective and Cognitive Processing in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
(2014-02-25)
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a behavior recently added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) as a condition for further study. In this dissertation, I present findings from three studies ...
Social Influences on Inequity Aversion in Children
(Public Library of Science, 2013-11-21)
Adults and children are willing to sacrifice personal gain to avoid both disadvantageous and advantageous inequity. These two forms of inequity aversion follow different developmental trajectories, with disadvantageous ...
Memory for Emotional Simulations: Remembering a Rosy Future
(SAGE Publications, 2012)
Mental simulations of future experiences are often concerned with emotionally arousing events. Although it is widely believed that mental simulations enhance future behavior, virtually nothing is known about the mnemonic ...
Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory
(American Psychological Association, 2012)
Memory serves critical functions in everyday life, but is also prone to error. This article examines adaptive constructive processes, which play a functional role in memory and cognition but can also produce distortions, ...
Simulating personal future events: Contributions from episodic memory and beyond
(2014-02-25)
Episodic simulation refers to the construction of imagined, hypothetical events that might occur in one's personal future. Damage to our capacity for episodic simulation can produce grave consequences, impairing our ability ...
High-level neural structures constrain visual behavior
(2014-06-06)
Visual cognition is notoriously limited: only a finite amount of information can be fully processed at a given instant. What is the source of these limitations? Here, we suggest that the organization of higher-level visual ...
Melting Lizards and Crying Mailboxes: Children's Preferential Recall of Minimally Counterintuitive Concepts
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
Previous research with adults suggests that a catalog of minimally counterintuitive concepts, which underlies supernatural or religious concepts, may constitute a cognitive optimum and is therefore cognitively encoded and ...
Social-Cognitive Contributors to Young Children’s Empathic and Prosocial Behavior
(MIT Press, 2011)
This chapter discusses motivational factors and the contributors responsible for the empathic and prosocial behavior of young children. The reasons that people engage in prosocial behaviors, including self-benefit and ...
Differences in cognitive processes underlying the collaborative activities of children and chimpanzees
(Elsevier BV, 2012)
We compared the performance of 3- and 5-year-old children with that of chimpanzees in two tasks requiring collaboration via complementary roles. In both tasks, children and chimpanzees were able to coordinate two complementary ...
Modeling Visual Working Memory with the MemToolbox
(Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2013)
The MemToolbox is a collection of MATLAB functions for modeling visual working memory. In support of its goal to provide a full suite of data analysis tools, the toolbox includes implementations of popular models of visual ...