Browsing by Subject "Psychobiology"
Now showing items 1-7 of 7
-
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 ... -
Analysis of Purkinje Cell Responses in the Oculomotor Vermis during the Execution of Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements
(2016)Smooth pursuit eye movements are movements of the eyes that are used to foveate moving objects. Their precision and adaptation is believed to depend on a constellation of sites across the cerebellum, but only one region’s ... -
Attentional Biases in Value-Based Decision-Making
(2014)Humans make decisions in highly complex physical, economic and social environments. In order to adaptively choose, the human brain has to learn about- and attend to- sensory cues that provide information about the potential ... -
Attentional Effects on Conditioned Inhibition of Discrete and Contextual Stimuli
(2013)In the present study, we examined the predictions of an attentional-associative model (Schmajuk, Lam, & Gray Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22, 321-349, 1996) regarding the effect of attentional ... -
Cellular Mechanism of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
(2015)Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a devastating illness that afflicts around 2% of the world's population with recurrent distressing thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive ritualistic behaviors (compulsions). ... -
The Biological Basis of Emotion in Musical Tonality
(2012)In most aspects of music--e.g., tempo, intensity, and rhythm--the emotional coloring of a melody is due at least in part to physical imitation of the characteristics of emotional expression in human behavior. Thus excited, ... -
The Functional Organization of the Mesencephalic Locomotor Region
(2020)Locomotion is an essential component of all animal behavior. It is highly conserved across species. Locomotion is defined as movement from one place to another. Studies of locomotion focus on two aspects: (1) the motor program ...
