A5029074617- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Language Development and Disorders
- Circadian rhythm and melatonin
University of California, Los Angeles
2023-2025
National Institute of Mental Health
2024
National Institutes of Health
2024
While semantic and episodic memory have been shown to influence each other, uncertainty remains as how this interplay occurs. We introduce a behavioral representational similarity analysis approach assess whether space can be subtly re-sculpted by learning. Eighty participants learned word pairs that varied in relatedness, learning was bolstered via either testing or restudying. Next-day recall is superior for semantically related pairs, but there larger benefit of unrelated pairs. Analyses...
A long-standing debate in neuropsychology concerns whether perception and memory function as independent systems or interact to support cognition. To investigate this, we developed the Face Memory Perception (FMP) task, a novel paradigm designed systematically disentangle how these processes under different conditions. Across four datasets with over 800 participants total, observed consistent evidence that face working operate independently when task demands are low, but more complex...
Children’s everyday language environments can be full of rich and diverse input, especially adult speech. Prosodic modifications when adults speak to infants are observed cross-culturally believed enhance infant learning emotion. However, factors such as what why speaking well speaker gender affect the prosody adults’ This study asks whether prosodic infant-directed speech depend on perceived gender, assigned pragmatic function an utterance. We examined 3,607 clips from daylong home audio...
Children’s everyday language environments can be full of rich and diverse input, especially adult speech. Prosodic modifications when adults speak to infants are observed cross-culturally believed enhance infant learning emotion. However, factors such as what why speaking well speaker gender affect the prosody adults’ This study asks whether prosodic infant-directed speech depend on perceived gender, assigned pragmatic function an utterance. We examined 3,607 clips from daylong home audio...
Surging interest in individual differences has faced setbacks light of recent replication crises psychology, for example brain-wide association studies exploring brain-behavior correlations. A crucial component replicability studies, which is often assumed but not directly tested, the reliability measures we use. Here, evaluate different cognitive tasks on a dataset with over 250 participants, who each completed multi-day task battery. We show how improves as function number trials, and...
Pupillometry is a popular method because pupil size easily measured and sensitive to central neural activity linked behavior, cognition, emotion, perception. Currently, there no for online monitoring phases of fluctuation. We introduce rtPupilPhase-an open-source software that automatically detects trends in real time. This tool enables novel applications real-time pupillometry achieving numerous research translational goals. validated the performance rtPupilPhase on human, rodent, monkey...
Compared to younger adults, older adults show a reduced difference in memory between items they are directed remember and forget. This effect may result from increased processing of goal-irrelevant information aging. In contrast, healthy often able selectively valuable information, suggesting preservation goal-directed encoding Here, we examined how value differentially affect directed-forgetting for irrelevant details value-directed remembering task. Experiment 1, participants studied words...
While semantic and episodic memory have been shown to influence each other, uncertainty remains as how this interplay occurs. We introduce a novel behavioral representational similarity analysis approach index space is re-sculpted by learning. Eighty participants learned word pairs that varied in relatedness whose learning was bolstered via either testing or restudying. Next-day recall superior for semantically related pairs, but there larger benefit of unrelated pairs. Critically,...
Abstract The surge in interest individual differences has coincided with the latest replication crisis centered around brain-wide association studies of brain-behavior correlations. Yet reliability measures we use cognitive neuroscience, a crucial component this relationship, is often assumed but not directly tested. Here, evaluate different tasks on large dataset over 250 participants, who each completed multi-day task battery. We show how improves as function number trials, and describe...