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The Impact of Noisy Vestibular Stimulation on Self-motion Phenomena
Low immersion and sickness experienced in virtual reality (VR) are two important barriers that inhibit the widespread adoption of VR technology. Both are thought to relate to visual-vestibular mismatch. Recoupling multisensory ... -
Impact of various stimulus properties on fusional vergence range and heterophoria
Binocular fusion is our ability to combine the two separate retinal images into a single fused image, even if the images are separated by a certain amount of disparity. We hypothesized that lower spatial frequencies sampled ... -
The Impact of Violation of Linguistic Expectations on Children's Perceptions of Helpfuless, Knowledgeability and Information Seeking Behaviour
(2010-09-29)When seeking information, children expect informants to provide information that is congruent with their knowledge and to use conventional labels. Violations of these linguistic expectations influence their behaviour and ... -
Impulsivity and Reward Sensitivity: Attentional and Emotional Factors Underlying Stimulus-Reward Learning
(2010-02-08)Increased impulsivity and alterations in reward sensitivity co-occur in many psychiatric disorders. Moreover, individuals reporting more impulsive traits are less efficient in learning stimulus-reward associations. This ... -
Individual and Community Factors in Bullying and Victimization
(2012-08-31)The goal of this thesis was to use an ecological framework to examine how individual and community characteristics interact and are related to bullying and victimization. Data were collected from over 20 000 students in ... -
Infants reason about functional information embedded in means-end sequences
(2007-09-18)For young infants, knowledge of physical objects and animate agents seems highly rigid, with no information combined across domains. Adult cognition, however, is more flexible. In this thesis, I use a special category ... -
The influence of persistent genital arousal (PGA) on romantic relationships
Persistent genital arousal disorder (PGAD) is characterized by sensations of physiological genital sexual arousal that occurs in the absence of subjective feelings of sexual desire. Although partner factors have been ... -
The Influence of Romantic Attachment Styles and Imagined Partner Rejection on Female Body Image
(2010-09-10)The purpose of this research was to examine how attachment style and rejection interact to influence female body image. I hypothesized that women who were high in attachment anxiety would report more negative self-evaluations ... -
The Influence of Subjective and Objective Working Knowledge on Attitude Strength
(2015-09-09)Many researchers have typically treated subjective and objective measures of working knowledge as alternative operationalizations of working knowledge. Some researchers have argued that these measures should not treated ... -
The Influence of the Level of Representation of Information on Belief Formation and Change
The upward extrapolation of information from an individual to a category and the downward extrapolation of information from a category to an individual are pervasive social-cognitive processes. People can form beliefs using ... -
Inhibitory Control is a Rate-Limiting Factor to Preschoolers' Use of Irregular Inflection
(2016-07-13)We investigated whether children’s inhibitory control is associated with their ability to produce irregular verb forms as well as learn from corrective feedback following their use of an over-regularized form. Forty-eight ... -
Interaction of Polymorphisms in the FKBP5 Gene & Childhood Adversity on the Cortisol Response to a Psychosocial Stress Task in Adolescents and Young Adults
(2013-09-05)Childhood adversity is often associated with devastating physical, cognitive, and psychosocial outcomes, and is a major public health problem in terms of its prevalence and economic cost. Childhood adversity is associated ... -
The Interactive Effects of Executive Functioning and Relevant Experience on Theory of Mind Development
(2014-09-25)This study investigated processes underlying the relation between executive functioning and false belief knowledge in preschool-aged children. The primary goal was to test the theory that executive functioning skills equip ... -
Interpersonal Emotion Dynamics in Mother-Daughter Dyads during Adolescence
(2016-05-16)The overarching goal of the current dissertation was to examine emotion dynamics in mother-daughter interactions across different positive and negative contexts, and their associations with psychosocial adjustment—relationship ... -
The interpretation of ambiguous words in psychosis
(2014-08-29)Semantically ambiguous words are ubiquitous in daily communication. Neurotypical individuals are able to resolve ambiguity with ease and efficiency, whereas individuals with schizophrenia tend to exhibit ambiguity-processing ... -
Investigating Multiple Roles of Vocal Confidence in Persuasion
(2016-10-03)Although persuasion often occurs via oral communication, it remains a comparatively understudied area. This research tested the hypothesis that changes in three properties of voice influence perceptions of speaker confidence, ... -
Investigating the Dopaminergic and Glucocorticoid Systems as Underlying Mechanisms of Anhedonia
Anhedonia, a severe deficit in reward processing, is an endophenotype of several neuropsychiatric disorders (APA, 2000) and increases susceptibility to depression (Atherton et al., 2015), substance abuse (Hatzigiakoumis ... -
Investigating the Role of Dopamine in Opioid Reward in Chronic Neuropathic Pain
Background: Neuropathic (NP) pain is commonly treated with opioids, such as morphine, despite acknowledgement that these drugs produce long-term complications including tolerance and addiction. Opioids have two effects on ... -
Investigating the Role of LPS-Induced Neuroinflammation as a Potential Mechanism of Anhedonia
Anhedonia, a deficit in reward processing, is a characteristic of many neuropsychiatric conditions including eating disorders, schizophrenia, substance use disorder and major depressive disorder (MDD) (American Psychiatric ... -
Investigating the Role of Neuropeptide Y in the Ventral Hippocampus in Regulating Rats’ Elevated Plus-Maze and Shock-Probe Burying Behaviours
(2015-09-25)Neuropeptide Y (NPY) has recently gained interest as a potential regulator of anxiety-like behaviours. However, its anxiety-associated effects in the ventral hippocampus are not well known, even though this structure is ...