This project focuses on the development of research tools and methods that are used to study the relationship between neural activity and subsequent hemodynamic responses in the human brain. This relationship, referred to as neurovascular coupling,...
Brain -- Localization of functions. Analogy. Frontal lobes. Neuropsychology.
This thesis represents a program of behavioral and brain-based research directed at elucidating the mechanisms of analogical reasoning. The studies that comprise this thesis took convergent experimental approaches to extend knowledge concerning two...
The studies described within the present dissertation build upon and extend the neuroimaging literature in the domains of imagery and semantic retrieval of perceptual memories. These investigations focus on the range of retrieval experiences--from...
Current theories of visual category learning posit a representation of category rules and visual features that critically define those categories that are encoded separately and distributed throughout the cerebral cortex. Neuroimaging and...