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Comprehending
a passage of text is especially difficult because many words do not
convey the
same
meaning in different contexts ( e.g., BANK). The goal of my research
is to understand how
context
can serve to disambiguate a word's meaning and guide the comprehension
process. In
particular,
I am interested in understanding how orthographic, contextual, and semantic
mappings
and
representations might serve in resolving a correct interpretation of a
passage of text via conjoint
computational/connectionist
and behavioural experimentation. Advisor:
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I
am currently working on studies of social perception development. Using
fMRI and eye tracking,
I
explore how young children improve in their abilities to identify and understand
others. I am
particularly
interested in theory of mind, biological motion, joint attention, and the
dysfunction in
social
cognition seen in autism.
Advisor:
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I
am interested in the development of categorization and social cognition
in infancy, and in particular
how
these areas contribute to infants' knowledge of animacy. My current research
focuses on how
infants
begin to identify goal-directed action and how they learn that nonhuman
animates are
goal-directed
entities.
Advisor:
Rakison
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I
am pursuing a joint degree in Psychology and Behavioral
Decision Research.
I
currently work on research that explores various topics involving emotion
and cognition.
I
study when, how, and why people decide to give their resources away during
acts of generosity.
I
am also interested in the affective antecedents of spending decisions.
Advisor:
SDS/Jennifer
Lerner
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I
am interested in how long-term and working memory interact with each other
and with other
processes,
particularly in the context of problem-solving. I use a variety of methods
to investigate
this
question, including ERP, fMRI, and cognitive modeling. My focus is broad,
and I'm more
interested
in how different cognitive processes interact than in the details of any
particular process.
Advisor:
Anderson
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My
two main research interests are mental representations and language.
Currently, my supervisor
Dr.
Jay McClelland and I are working on a neural network model of graded mental
representations
where
input from different modalities is gradually integrated into increasingly
conjunctive
representations.
Advisor:
McClelland
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I
am interested in the neural mechanisms behind face and object recognition.
How does the
organization
of the specific brain regions that support these processes emerge? How
are these
mechanisms
disrupted in individuals with brain damage?Advisor:
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I
am interested in the interaction of speech perception between first and
second languages, and also
first
and second language acquisition. Now I’m working on the speaker normalization
and tone
normalization.Advisor:
Holt
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I
am interested in second language acquisition, particularly issues of transference
from the primary
language
to the second language and they way the two influence each other. Currently,
I am looking
into
the extent to which native Japanese speakers can be trained to differentiate
between /r/ and /l/
and
their ability to generalize this discrimination beyond the training context.
Advisors:
McClelland
&
Holt
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I
am interested in early childhood science learning, and in particular how
science education can
develop
children's reasoning skills and approaches to learning, such as curiosity.
My research has
focused
on using children's exploration in different contexts as a way of measuring
curiosity. As a
more
general interest, I would like to investigate the impact of science-based
curricula on at-risk
children's
school readiness.Advisor:
Klahr
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John,
Leslie |
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I
am interested in problem-solving and deductive reasoning as they apply
to educational settings.
Currently,
I am using cognitive modeling and neuroimaging techniques to study geometry
proof
problem-solving.
I hope eventually to design an intervention to improve students' geometry
performance.Advisor:
Anderson
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My
larger research interests lie in human judgment and decision-making. My
primary research
includes
studying perceptions of sexual risk with the aim of designing public health
interventions.
I
am also working on understanding the nature of sexual desire and satisfaction
as it relates to aging.
Advisor:
SDS/Baruch
Fischhoff
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As
a former teacher, I am particularly interested in aspects of cognitive
development that
have
implications for education. My current research investigates the influence
of anchors in
children's
estimation and children's stratgey use in estimation tasks.
Advisor:
Siegler
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The
perception of speech and music and their interaction. More generally, I
am interested in how
prior
auditory experience or learning affects perception/categorization
of sounds. I would like to
investigate
these topics by using behavioral as well as neurophysiological methods.
Advisor:
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Broadly,
my research interests are in children's cognitive development and how cognitive
science
can
be applied to mediate learning in education. I am particularly interested
in understanding how
children
develop in their ability to use inductive generalization, categorization,
and analogical
reasoning
to solve novel problems.
Advisor:
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At
the most general level I am interested in researching the role of experience
on neurocognition
and
behavior. My goal is to focus on research in perceptual learning using
behavioral, imaging and
neuropsychological
methods. Advisor:
Behrmann
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I
will be studying the neural substrates of recognition memory. My interests
are in brain imaging and
the
psychopharmacology of memory.Advisor:
Reder
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I
am interested in the way in which second languages are acquired, more specifically
whether L2
syntactic
structures can be truly mastered in a meaningful way. In order to investigate
this, I also
am
interested in the question of optimal practice scheduling and other related
learning process
questions,
such as Competition Model predictions of task difficulty, explicit vs.
implicit instruction,
and
to what extent individual difference plays a role in this mastery. Currently,
my research takes
place
in French courses at CMU and Pitt, through the PSLC
LearnLab.
Advisor:
MacWhinney
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I
am interested in problem solving and learning, particularly in mathematics.
Currently, I am
investigating
the effects of practice on learning in complex domains. I plan to use behavioural,
neural
and computation techniques to examine these questions.
Advisor:
Lovett
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My
research interests are broad. Currently, I am trying to understand the
structure of visuospatial
cognition
in autism along a developmental trajectory using a combination of behavioral
and
imaging
tools.Advisor:
Just
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I'm
interested in using fMRI to examine the neural correlates of social cognition.
I am particularly
interested
in Theory of Mind and how it varies in people with autism, as seen through
behavior and
brain
activation.Advisor:
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Smith,
K
TBA |
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Perceptual
processes contributing to spoken language comprehension.Advisor:
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I
am interested in the internal representations that individuals form of
people with whom they share
close
relationships, and how these representations affect perceptions of themselves,
others, and
relationship
events. Attachment theory suggests that these cognitive representations
are particularly
influential
during times when individuals need and/or provide support, and I am specifically
interested
in
the impact of perceptions on support outcomes. I am interested in exploring
cognitive
representations
and perceptions in at least two ways: (1) understanding and defining the
nature of
the
representations, and (2) observing the impact of the representations on
dynamic interactions in
close
relationships.
Advisor:
Feeney
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I
am interested in strategy selection during problem solving. More specifically,
I study the factors
that
influence whether people choose to solve math problems with or without
the aid of technology,
such
as a calculator. By manipulating characteristics of problems and available
technology, I try to
gain
insight into the process by which people succeed (and sometimes fail) in
optimizing their
performance.Advisor:
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I
am broadly interested in investigating the cognitive mechanisms that support
language function,
both
normal and aphasic, using both behavioral and computational (PDP) methods.
I am particularly
interested
in speech production -- how a speaker first selects a concept from semantic
knowledge and
then
selects that concept's corresponding sounds.
Advisor:
Plaut
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My
research interests focus primarily on the neural mechanisms of human vision.
I am especially
interested
in conducting research that will broaden the understanding of the neural
mechanisms
behind
the two main visual pathways that guide vision for action and vision for
perception.
I
currently focus on research that explores possible interactions between
those two systems.
Advisor:
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