Psychology & Neuroscience: Recent submissions

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    • The organisational effects of adolescent gonadal hormones on behavioural development in rats 

      Kulbarsh, Kyle D. (University of St Andrews, 2014-06) - Thesis
      Gonadal steroid hormones play an important role in adolescent neural and behavioural development, causing changes that can be seen throughout life. Endogenous hormones have a direct impact on behaviour in both immediate ...

    • Retrieval processes in social identification 

      Griffiths, Alexander Ivor (University of St Andrews, 2015-06-23) - Thesis
      The utility of selective retrieval processes in our everyday lives is evident across the varied contexts we are subjected to as human beings. Memory is characterised by an unlimited storage capacity, but limited retrieval ...

    • Memory inhibition across the lifespan 

      Teale, Julia C. (University of St Andrews, 2015-06-23) - Thesis
      Age can affect memory performance. This statement is so often heard that it has become almost a truism. When research surrounding memory inhibition – the ability to ignore irrelevant material to aid in the retrieval of a ...

    • We are what we remember : an examination of autobiographical memory across the lifespan and the impact of Alzheimer’s disease 

      Lonson, Celeste Shin-Ru (University of St Andrews, 2014-10) - Thesis
      “If you could somehow reprogram a person’s brain and change a significant memory in someone’s life, would that individual become someone else entirely?” According to McAdams (1985), a loss of autobiographical memory (AM) ...

    • Social complexity in a large and small group of olive baboons 

      Sambrook, Thomas Daniel (University of St Andrews, 1996) - Thesis
      Group size is known to correlate with various indices of brain size in the primates. The possibility that increases in group size foster social complexity forms the central empirical topic of this thesis. A ten month field ...