Psychology & Neuroscience: Recent submissions
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Cerebral hemispheric studies on the visual perception of motion
(University of St Andrews, 1981) - ThesisExperiments were conducted to examine the differential capabilities of the cerebral hemispheres for the visual perception of motion. Subjects were normal right handed adult male and female humans. Stimuli were viewed ... -
Polarized light detection and receptor interaction in the arthropod eye
(University of St Andrews, 1968) - Thesis -
The nervous control of the eye movements of the shore crab Carcinus maenas
(University of St Andrews, 1964) - Thesis1. The eyes of the crab Carcinus follow with constantly increasing lag the movement of a horizontally rotating (but not a linearly translated) visual field during the slow phase of optokinetic nystagmus. The difference ... -
Remembering past events in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus) and orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)
(University of St Andrews, 2018-06-29) - ThesisEpisodic memory is memory for personally experienced past events. Recently, there has been intense debate as to whether episodic memory is unique to humans, or whether it may extend to non-human animals. Although many ... -
Poor readers' use of orthographic information in reading, memory and phonological tasks
(University of St Andrews, 2002) - ThesisThis thesis examined the abilities of 10-12 year old poor readers and reading age controls in phonological processing, printed word learning, reading and memory based tasks. It was found that the poor readers showed little ...