Psychology & Neuroscience: Recent submissions
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Psychophysical studies of interactions between luminance and chromatic information in human vision
(University of St Andrews, 2014-06-24) - ThesisIn this thesis, I investigated how human vision processes colour and luminance information to enable perception of our environment. I first tested how colour can alter the perception of depth from shading. A luminance ... -
Humiliation : understanding its nature, experience and consequences
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - ThesisThis thesis examined the nature, experience and consequences of humiliation among Dalits (ex-Untouchables) in India (and also among UK students for comparative purposes). Social psychological research looks at humiliation ... -
The goal trumps the means : highlighting goals is more beneficial than highlighting means in means-end training
(2013-04) - Journal articleMeans-end actions are an early-emerging form of problem solving. These actions require initiating initial behaviors with a goal in mind. In this study, we explored the origins of 8-month-old infants’ means-end action ... -
The contribution of the subthalamic nucleus to executive functions in rat
(University of St Andrews, 2014-12-01) - ThesisLesions of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) alleviate the cardinal signs of idiopathic as well as MPTP-induced Parkinson’s disease in primates. For this reason, the STN is a target for clinical treatment of Parkinson’s ... -
A genetic algorithm for face fitting
(2012-02) - Conference paperAccurate estimation of the shape of human faces has many applications from computer-imaging to psychological research. One well known method is to fit a Three Dimensional Morphable Model to a target image. This method is ...