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Deception: How do we feel about it, and how do we detect it?
The subjective experience of lying has been broadly theorized in deception research, with preference to the idea that humans feel either fear, guilt, or excitement (Ekman, 1985). Moreover, some authors suggest that ...
Is Biofeedback Training of Ownership Perceptions Possible? EEG Classification of Volitional Hand-Ownership using Common Spatial Patterns
‘Ownership’ is the natural feeling that our body parts belong to us when we attend to them. And yet, this innate sensation of ownership is susceptible to disorder which has led to interventions involving ownership of ...
The Neural Correlates of Mirror Therapy – An EEG Study
Mirror therapy is a non-invasive treatment procedure in which visual observation of a mirror-reflected moving limb ameliorates some sensorimotor symptoms associated with an impaired (or amputated) limb. Initially proposed ...
The Ubiquitous Decline or Paradox of Aging: Young and Older Adults' Differences in Emotion Reactivity, Recognition and Regulation
The aging literature indicates that physical, cognitive and affective functions follow different trajectories across the lifespan. Physical and cognitive capabilities are shown to decline with advancing age, whereas affective ...
Response inhibition and properties of its underlying processes : evidence from behavioral and electrophysiological measurements
I attempted to further our understanding of response inhibition by examining three questions concerning how it works. The first question that I examined was what determines the success of response inhibition. This question ...
Parent-involvement in children's reading development: Parent and teacher perceptions, and child reading outcomes
The purpose of this PhD research was to investigate dimensions of parent-involvement in children's reading during the first two years at school. Given that the development of reading skills is the key instructional task ...
Exploring the relationship between hedonic capacity and schizotypy quantitatively using the reinforcer sensitivity theory
The current project aims to resolved paradoxical findings in regards to the role of anhedonia in schizotypy. To achieve this, the current project has two main objectives.
The first part of the current project aims to address ...
Is the Automatic Recognition of Emotional Expressions Modulated by Eye-Gaze Direction?
Automatically recognising threat-related expressions is critical for humans’ survival as it allows for rapid evaluation of a threatening stimulus that subsequently elicits an immediate behavioural response. Research has ...
Is a Picture Worth A Thousand Words? The Clinical Use of Children's Drawings.
Clinicians who work with children commonly use drawing in their assessment interviews. Drawing in clinical interviews is usually used in one of two ways; as a projective tool, where aspects of a child’s drawing are interpreted ...
Prefrontal cortex delay activity: Sample code or reward code?
Prefrontal cortex (PFC) delay activity found in working memory tasks has been said to be a neural correlate of memory. However, similar PFC delay activity has been found in reward tasks. Given that a reward usually follows ...