Browsing by Subject "Psychology, Cognitive"
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Action Simulations in Acquisition Cost Estimates
(2009)Consumers often lack objective information about product acquisition costs. In such cases, consumers must rely on estimates of acquisition costs in making their choices. The current work examines the influence of mental ... -
Distortions in Perceived Direction of Motion Predicted by Population Response in Visual Cortex
(2009)The visual system is thought to represent the trajectory of moving objects in the activity of large populations of cortical neurons that respond preferentially to the direction of stimulus motion. Here I employed in vivo ... -
Effects of Expectation, Experience, and Environment on Visual Search
(2009)A pervasive aspect of daily life is searching for a specific target amongst an array of distracting items. Studying such visual searches offers a useful and powerful tool for revealing the underlying aspects of visual attention. ... -
Emotional Modulation of Cognitive Skill Learning.
(2007-12-13)In this set of studies the modulation of feedback-based cognitive skill learning was investigated by modulating a probabilistic classification learning (PCL) task to be either emotional or neutral. In the current task, based ... -
Molecules to Mind: the Construction of Emotion
(2009)In recent years, there has been increasing scientific interest in the biological basis of emotion. By characterizing the neural and genetic basis of affective functioning, new research has the potential to contribute to ... -
Neuroethology of Social Attention in Primates
(2008-11-11)To solicit the attention or determine the intentions of another, we use our eyes. While many animals appear to use eyes as an important behavioral cue, for humans, these cues are especially critical. The power of the eyes ... -
Object-Directed Action Experiences and their Effect on Cognitive and Social Development
(2010)Reaching is an important and early emerging motor skill that allows infants to interact with the physical and social world (e.g., when sharing objects). Despite the importance of motor experiences in early infancy, few studies ... -
The Neurobiological Foundations of Altruism
(2008-05-01)This project advocates an urgent role for neurobiological evidence and models in the study of altruism. I argue for two claims: that neurobiological evidence should be used to constrain candidate scientific accounts of altruistic ... -
Understanding the Hypercorrection Effect: Why High-Confidence Errors are More Likely to be Corrected
(2010)The hypercorrection effect refers to the finding that high-confidence errors are more likely to be corrected after feedback than are low-confidence errors (Butterfield & Metcalfe, 2001). In 5 experiments I examine ...
