Lelo de Larrea-Mancera, E S Stavropoulos, T Carrillo, A A Menon, K N Hoover, E C Eddins, D A Gallun, F J Seitz, A R
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Attention, perception & psychophysics
A major barrier to the clinical application of psychophysical testing of central auditory processes is the time required to obtain precise estimates of different listening abilities. In this study, we validate a novel adaptive scan (AS) method of threshold estimation that is designed to adapt on a range of values around threshold rather than on a s...
Ly, Franklin Somchith
This dissertation explores the development and effectiveness of various physiological instruments for health optimization and diagnostic applications. It begins by studying the Bone Material Strength index (BMSi) and its significant correlation with conventional hardness measurements. This dissertation then includes the engineering development of p...
Ugarte, Elisa
Unpredictability, an aspect of early life adversity, creates significant disruptions for children and adolescents’ psychosocial development throughout their lifetime. Despite growing evidence highlighting the importance of predictable caregiving in fostering long-term healthy development, there is still limited understanding of proximal unpredictab...
Pourmand, Vida
Higher self-reported rumination, a common form of trait perseverative cognition, is linked with lower resting heart rate variability (HRV), which indicates poorer cardiac function and greater disease risk. A prior meta-analysis and systematic review indicates that in samples with fewer European Americans, the association of rumination with both hea...
Babenko, Viktoriya
Unlike males, naturally menstruating females undergo a distinct hormonal monthly cycle, in which hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) sex hormones undergo drastic concentration changes across a single menstrual cycle. Furthermore, major regions of the brain are packed with receptors for both HPG and stress hormones. For these reasons, both HPG and ...
Dempo, Akihiko Kimura, Tsukasa Shinohara, Kazumitsu
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Attention, perception & psychophysics
In the present study, we investigated the difference between monocular augmented reality (AR) and binocular AR in terms of perception and cognition by using a task that combines the flanker task with the oddball task. A right- or left-facing arrowhead was presented as a central stimulus at the central vision, and participants were instructed to pre...
Leonardis, Eric Jeffrey
This thesis is about the investigation of brain and body coupling with agents and objects at multiple scales in different contexts. We seek to characterize the reaction of behavioral and multi-region brain dynamics during interaction between rodents and other conspecifics, robots, and objects. Then we examine how these coupled agents and systems le...
Gonzalves, Lauren Christine
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for youth in the United States and the rates are continuing to rise. Unfortunately, national policy efforts to combat this increase in youth deaths by suicide have made little difference. Suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB) disproportionately affect female adolescents, and youth of color, including Lat...
Francis, Alexander L Bent, Tessa Schumaker, Jennifer Love, Jordan Silbert, Noah
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Attention, perception & psychophysics
Listeners vary in their ability to understand speech in adverse conditions. Differences in both cognitive and linguistic capacities play a role, but increasing evidence suggests that such factors may contribute differentially depending on the listening challenge. Here, we used multilevel modeling to evaluate contributions of individual differences ...
Moyers, Susette Alanna
Dysregulated diurnal secretion patterns of the hormone cortisol are implicated in mediating associations between stress exposure and health outcomes (Chrousos & Gold, 1992; Davis & Sandman, 2010; Lupien et al., 2009), including the onset and progression of mental and physical health disorders (Heim et al., 2008). Physical activity participation has...
