Browsing by Author "Daniel T. Levin"
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Vázquez, Maria Dolores (2010-04-20)Department: PsychologyTwo aspects of children’s understanding of Gricean maxims were investigated. First, children’s awareness of adherence to the maxims of quality and relation was tested in two separate conditions. Second, children’s use of ...
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Martinez Garza, Mario Manuel (2016-01-26)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityLearning theory and educational data analytics can be said to coevolve, that is, to refine and improve each other reciprocally, each aspect providing a necessary element for the growth and advancement of the other. In this ...
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Baker, Lewis John (2016-06-29)Department: PsychologySensory input from the social world is often bustling and chaotic, and yet human beings typically comprehend events with ease. Evidence suggests that the perceptual system uses social cues to guide awareness to relevant ...
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Bilge, Mustafa Taha (2016-05-19)Department: PsychologyParticipants respond to the target stimulus faster in a visual search task when the target item “pops out” among distractor stimuli. Priming of pop-out refers to cases in which repetition of the pop-out feature (e.g., ...
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Osina, Maria Alexandrovna (2014-11-25)Department: PsychologyThe purpose of the current two studies is to investigate infants’ access to and their use of two sources of information when establishing common ground with the speaker. In study 1, I investigate infants’ access to shared ...
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Verdine, Brian Nicholas (2011-04-14)Department: PsychologyEducational video games may offer a good platform for learning because they are highly motivating. Studies have already shown that adults can improve visual-spatial abilities through playing video games. This research ...
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Curby, Kim Michelle (2006-01-27)Department: PsychologyShelves are stocked with endless books offering advice on how to increase one’s memory capacity, but it is unclear if all types of memory are open to improvement. For example, according to one prominent theory, visual ...
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Verdine, Brian Nicholas (2005-08-08)Department: PsychologyThis thesis will present a study exploring visual-spatial cognition and its relationship to puzzling ability in individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). A mental-age matched normally developing sample will serve as ...
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Varakin, Donald Alexander (2006-07-31)Department: PsychologySeveral recent papers state that working memory's contents cause attention to automatically deploy to matching objects in a display. Results of eight experiments reported here are inconsistent with this claim. In the ...