Browsing by Department "Psychology and Neuroscience"
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A Bayesian Model of Cognitive Control
(2014)"Cognitive control" describes endogenous guidance of behavior in situations where routine stimulus-response associations are suboptimal for achieving a desired goal. The computational and neural mechanisms underlying this ... -
A Biopsychosocial Study of the Mammography Pain Experiences of Breast Cancer Survivors
(2009)Based on a biopsychosocial model of mammography pain, the current study assessed if specific biological and psychosocial factors were associated with higher reported mammography pain in early stage breast cancer survivors. ... -
A Controlled Breathing Intervention for Women Undergoing MRI-Guided Breast Biopsy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
(2020)Controlled breathing techniques are widely used to help people manage pain, and there is growing interest in using these approaches during painful outpatient medical procedures. The outpatient MRI-guided breast biopsy is ... -
A Friend in Need: The Influence of Friendship on the Psychosocial Adjustment of Youth with Chronic Health Conditions
(2015)Friendship has consistently been found to act as a buffer against psychological maladjustment for healthy youth and youth experiencing difficulties including parental divorce and natural disasters. Less known is the role ... -
A Laboratory Investigation of Mindfulness and Reappraisal As Emotion Regulation Strategies
(2013)Effective emotion regulation plays an important role in psychological health. Two commonly-researched emotion regulation strategies are reappraisal, a cognitive change-based strategy, and mindfulness, an acceptance-based ... -
A Longitudinal Examination of Regulatory Focus Theory's Application to Adolescent Psychopathology
(2011)Higgins' regulatory focus theory (1997) postulates two cognitive/motivational systems for pursuing desired end states: the promotion and prevention systems. The theory predicts that failure in each system is discriminantly ... -
A Longitudinal Investigation of Infant Gesture Use and Parent Speech: Unique and Dynamic Influences on Infant Vocabulary Acquisition
(2016)How do infants learn word meanings? Research has established the impact of both parent and child behaviors on vocabulary development, however the processes and mechanisms underlying these relationships are still not fully ... -
A New Approach for Complex Problem Solving: The Independent Systems Dynamics Elicitation Method
(2010)The Systems Dynamics literature demonstrates that individuals have difficulty understanding and working with systems concepts. To model Systems Dynamics (SD), researchers suggest that clients contract with a modeling team ... -
A New Experimental and Conceptual Approach to Understanding the Ventral Tegmental Area and Its Regulation of Motivated Behaviors
(2021)Motivated behaviors are essential for the survival and maintenance of life. The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is a midbrain region that has been implicated in motivational processes, such as seeking reward and ... -
A Novel Experimental Method for Measuring Proactive and Reactive Responses to Threat and an Examination of Their Personality and Neural Correlates
(2015)The goal of this dissertation is to characterize goal directed proactive behavioral responses to threat as well as reactive responses to threat exposure, and to identify the neural and personality correlates of individual ... -
A Window Into Autonomic Nervous System Functioning in Autism: Pupillometry in Adults on the Autism Spectrum
(2021)The autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulates physiological processes throughout the body and disruption or imbalance of that system has been associated with negative physical and psychological outcomes. Pupil responsivity ... -
Adherence and Quality of Life in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease: A Pilot Mobile Health Intervention
(2017)Children and adolescents with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at high risk for medical complications, neuropsychological sequelae, and lower overall quality of life. One target of intervention that can positively impact these ... -
Aerobic Exercise, Diet, and Neurocognition among Individuals with High Blood Pressure
(2009)In addition to the adverse effects of high blood pressure (HBP) on cardiovascular disease, HBP is also associated with increased risk of stroke, dementia, and neurocognitive dysfunction. Although aerobic exercise and dietary ... -
Affective Modulation of Executive Control
(2013)Emotions are pervasive in daily life, and a rich literature has documented how emotional stimuli and events disrupt ongoing processing and place heightened demands on control. Yet the executive control mechanisms ... -
Age Differences in Suggestibility Following Semantic Illusions: The Role of Prior Knowledge
(2014)In the face of declines in memory related to specific events, people maintain intact general knowledge into very old age. Older adults often use this knowledge to support their remembering. Semantic illusions involve situations ... -
Age-Related Differences in Mnemonic Neural Representations: Perceptual and Semantic Contributions
(2020)Preliminary evidence demonstrates that age-related differences in episodic memory performance become greater in tasks that have greater perceptual demands (e.g., task stimuli are visually degraded), but are attenuated in ... -
Age-related Differences in the Neural Mechanisms of Episodic Memory: Representational and Network Analyses
(2023)Advanced age is associated with substantial changes in the brain. These changes can be attributed to many difference sources, such as detrimental effects of aging, brain’s compensatory responses to such negative effects, ... -
Alzheimer's Disease Risk Genes and Cognitive Decline in a Healthy Population
(2017-05-21)Introduction: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a devastating, progressive, irreversible brain disorder. Previous research has identified genes associated with the risk of developing AD. Variations in the Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ... -
American-Born “Confused” Desi?: An Exploration of Indian-American Biculturalism and Bilingualism
(2023-04-21)Our feelings of social connectedness play a major role in our psychological wellbeing. For immigrants and ethnic minorities, cultural communities assist in developing positive social connections and social identities around ... -
An Empirical Investigation of Eating Disorders and Difficulties Regulating Emotion: Do Difficulties Vary Based on Symptom Profiles?
(2011)Eating disorders pose a serious threat to the physical and mental health of those who suffer from them. Given the impact of these disorders and difficulty treating them, it is important to understand the nature of them ...
