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Cognitive Control of Emotional Information in Schizophrenia: Understanding the Mechanisms of Social Functioning Impairments
(2013-10-18)
Social functioning impairments are a core, debilitating, and treatment refractory feature of schizophrenia. The mechanisms contributing to these impairments are unknown. Cognitive control mechanisms, mediated by the lateral ...
Large-Scale Networks in the Human Brain revealed by Functional Connectivity MRI
(2013-10-18)
The human brain is composed of distributed networks that connect a disproportionately large neocortex to the brainstem, cerebellum and other subcortical structures. New methods for analyzing non-invasive imaging data have ...
Duration of Recovery and Susceptibility to Criticism-Induced Information-Processing Biases in Major Depression
(2013-02-22)
Major depression is a highly prevalent disorder that affects millions of individuals worldwide each year. Theorists such as Aaron T. Beck (1967; 1976) revolutionized how depression is understood by proposing that cognitive ...
Temporal Processing in the Visual System
(2013-03-18)
Encoding time is one of the most important features of the mammalian brain. The visual system, comprising almost half of the brain is of no exception. Time processing enables us to make goal-directed behavior in the optimum ...
Examining the Relationships between Stress, Reward Processing, and Bipolar Disorder
(2013-03-08)
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a prevalent illness associated with severe impairments in functioning and elusive etiological pathways. Although a strong link between negative life stress and the onset of mood episodes in BD has ...
Neural Circuits at the Intersection of Feeling and Deciding
(2013-03-08)
Affect plays a central role in perception and action. We register how good or bad we feel about objects in our environment at the moment of perception. These associations can guide decisions between different courses of ...
The Evolutionary and Cognitive Basis of the Perception and Production of Dance
(2013-03-08)
Dance is a universal and ancient human behavior; however, our understanding of the basis of this behavior is surprisingly weak. In this dissertation, I explore the cognitive and evolutionary foundations of human dance, ...
Infants' Understanding of Social Affiliation and Behavioral Conformity
(2013-03-06)
This dissertation engages in two major hypotheses regarding infants' naïve theory of social relationships. First, it proposes that infants may apply a domain-specific understanding to represent and reason about social ...
Happiness from the Bottom Up
(2013-02-15)
This dissertation presents three papers organized around a central theme: understanding happiness from the bottom up, in the context of everyday life. The first paper asks whether, in the course of daily activities, people ...
Reading the Minds of Others: Dissociable Neural Processes and Their Social Consequences
(2013-02-15)
The ability to infer the contents of other minds--i.e., to mentalize--is a foundation of human social functioning, allowing individuals to respond to to the hidden thoughts, beliefs, intentions, desires, and feelings ...