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Reason, Reflection, and Moral Change
(2014-10-21)
Recent work in moral psychology emphasizes the role of immediate intuitive responses in shaping moral judgments, while at the same time questioning the causal role of more reflective reasoning processes. On this account ...
Continuities and discontinuities in working memory representations of collections over ontogeny
(2014-10-23)
Working memory, or the ability to maintain and manipulate information such that it can be used to guide behavior, is known to be severely capacity limited, in most circumstances, to about 3-4 objects. Both infants and ...
Flexible visual information representation in human parietal cortex
(2014-10-21)
In many everyday activities, we must visually process multiple objects embedded in complex real world scenes. Our visual system can flexibly extract behaviorally relevant visual information from such scenes, even though ...
Infants' and toddlers' reasoning about others: Connections to prosocial development and language
(2014-10-21)
Often overlooked in the study of theory of mind (ToM) development, the understanding of motivational states, such as goals and desires, is both an important capacity in its own right and also a likely precursor to more ...
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 ...
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 ...
The representation of person identity in the human brain
(2014-06-06)
Every day we encounter a variety of people, and we need to recognize their identity to interact with them appropriately. The most common ways to recognize a person's identity include the recognition of a face and of a ...
Society in Mind: The manifestation of structural power and status differences in cognitive and regulatory domains.
(2014-06-06)
Where one stands in society matters for how one feels, thinks, and behaves. This dissertation provides evidence for this claim from the perspective of universal psychological mechanisms used to navigate the social world. ...
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 ...
Measuring, monitoring, and maintaining memories in a partially observable mind
(2014-06-06)
Visual memory holds in mind details of objects, textures, faces, and scenes. After initial exposure to an image, however, visual memories rapidly degrade because they are transferred from iconic memory, a high-capacity ...