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Effects of attention on physiological responses in human visual cortex
(2014-02-24)Behavioral performance often suffers when attention is divided across multiple visual items. These results are supported by fMRI experiments showing reduced responses during divided attention, relative to focused attention, ... -
Effects of attention without perceptual awareness on motor responses, memory and behavior
(2012-08-10)Our everyday visual experience is strongly affected by attention. Visual attention can enhance or prioritize the processing of specific stimuli over the overwhelming number of other sensory inputs by selecting spatial ... -
Effects of Divided Attention for Space and Features
To cope with the multitude of stimuli in the world, our visual system selectively attends to the pertinent locations or features in our environment, and while not all available information is relevant, it is common at a ... -
Effects of selective and divided attention arise from either serial or parallel processing depending on the task
Visual attention involves selecting relevant information for further processing. In selective attention, a single stimulus is selected while distractors are filtered out. In divided attention, multiple stimuli are selected. ... -
Emotion Regulation in Adults with a History of Childhood Abuse Following PTSD Treatment
(2012-09-13)<bold><italic>Objective:<bold><italic> The findings that adults with a history of childhood abuse (CA) have greater emotion regulation difficulties than adult trauma survivors without a history of CA (e.g., Cloitre, ... -
Encoding and decoding models of functional MRI responses in human visual and auditory cortex.
Computational models of brain activity serve to not only uncover the organizational principles of the brain, but also quantify the neural processes underlying our perceptual experiences. This dissertation investigates the ... -
Estimation of population receptive fields in human visual and auditory cortex
Topographical organization is a foundation principle of human sensory cortices where the sensory neurons encode information from the physical world into orderly representational maps along sensory-specific dimensions. The ... -
Ethnic differences in alcohol outcome expectancies and drinking patterns
(1989)The beliefs and attitudes about the effect of alcohol consumption upon behavior were compared using self-report measures of alcohol outcome expectancy, attitude toward drinking, and level of drinking habit within four ... -
Ethobehavioral Studies of Fear, Sex, and Biological Rhythms
All animals, to varying degrees, must make decisions regarding when and how to balance the need to acquire resources (“foraging”) and the need to avoid threats (“avoidance”). The neurobiological and psychological processes ... -
Evaluating smoking attitudes in response to different types of anti-smoking messages using a Highly Repeated Within-Person Design
Counter-marketing of tobacco use is an important component of preventing tobacco initiation and encouraging quitting among current smokers, and has contributed to overall reduction of smoking prevalence. However, further ... -
Event-Related Potential Additivity as an Index of Overlap in Neurocognitive Resources.
(2013-07-25)Scalp-recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) are poorly suited for source analysis. Consequently, it is difficult to assess the relative neural independence of two ERP waveforms using such methods. We report here an ... -
Examination of a Sex-Related Distress Self-Medication Drinking Model Following Sexual Victimization: Longitudinal and Event-Specific Studies
Women ages 18-24 are at the highest risk for sexual victimization (SV), with more than 20% of women affected during college. The self-medication model of alcohol use, whereby drinking is negatively reinforced through the ... -
An Examination of the Broader Autism Phenotype in Simplex and Multiplex Families
(2013-02-25)Non-inherited genetic mutations are more prevalent in families with only one individual diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; simplex) whereas inherited genetic risk factors may play a greater role in families with ... -
Examining barriers and facilitators to professional mental health help-seeking in Asian American youth
(2006)The purpose of the present study was to gain a more comprehensive understanding of help-seeking in Asian American youth. The current study examined three major types of categories that impact whether an Asian American youth ... -
Examining basal RSA as a possible moderator of the effects of cumulative risk on preadolescent appraisal, coping, and adjustment: A mediated moderation model
Children who have been exposed to cumulative risk (CR) are more likely to have poor physical and psychological health across the lifespan. It has been proposed that early multiple risk exposure contributes to children’s ... -
Examining Stress-Related Pathways of Substance Use Among Sexual Minority Women
Alcohol and drug abuse among sexual minority women (SMW) is an increasingly recognized public health concern in the United States. Across a multitude of nationally-representative samples, SMW populations report higher rates ... -
Examining the Impact of Guided Memory Retrieval on Intrusive Memories: An Online Trauma Film Paradigm Study
Intrusive memories are a cardinal symptom of chronic post-traumatic mental health problems (e.g., Brewin et al., 2010). Post-event memory processing may be a key facilitator of remission of intrusive memories (Marks et ... -
Examining the Interplay of Vagal Tone and Parenting as Predictors of Child Psychopathology
(2013-02-25)Emotion dysregulation is a critical factor in the development of psychopathology (Cicchetti, Ackerman, & Izard, 1995), and deficits in emotion regulation are a core component of many psychiatric disorders (DelCarmen-Wiggins, ... -
Examining the social emotional impact of a brief mindfulness program for students in special education
As the popularity of both clinic- and school-based mindfulness-based interventions (MBI’s) has grown, high quality empirical support for the efficacy of these interventions has been limited. School-based MBI’s are gaining ... -
Executive function and social problem-solving in maltreated and non-maltreated preschool children
(1997)This study examined the early relationship between executive functioning (EF) and social problem-solving (SPS) skills and their influence on behavioral adjustment by comparing the performance of maltreated and non-maltreated ...