Psychology & Neuroscience: Recent submissions

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    • Sparse coding 

      Foldiak, P; Endres, D M (2008) - Journal article
      Mammalian brains consist of billions of neurons, each capable of independent electrical activity. Information in the brain is represented by the pattern of activation of this large neural population, forming a neural code. ...

    • Bayesian binning beats approximate alternatives: estimating peri-stimulus time histograms 

      Endres, D M; Oram, M W; Schindelin, J.E.; Foldiak, P (MIT Press, 2008) - Journal article
      The peristimulus time histogram (PSTH) and its more continuous cousin, the spike density function (SDF) are staples in the analytic toolkit of neurophysiologists. The former is usually obtained by binning spike trains, ...

    • Dissection of observational learning among chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens) 

      Hopper, Lydia Meriel (University of St Andrews, 2008-01) - Thesis
      In the wild, a variety of inter-group behavioural differences have been reported for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and it has been suggested that these may have resulted from social learning. To determine whether chimpanzees ...

    • Behavioural investigation of the role of caudal thalamic reticular nucleus in attention 

      Petrof, Iraklis (University of St Andrews, 2007-11) - Thesis
      The thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN), and especially its caudal, sensory-related, half (cTRN), has been hypothesised for years to be at the very heart of thalamic sensory processing modulation, and attentional processes ...

    • Human use of horizontal disparity for perception and visuomotor control 

      Scarfe, Peter (University of St Andrews, 2007-11-30) - Thesis
      Our eyes are horizontally separated in the head by approximately 6.5cm. As a result of this separation there are subtle differences in the position of corresponding image points within the two eyes. The horizontal component ...