The principal aim of this research programme was to examine multiple components of competitive tennis players’ emotional responses to pre-performance music. To this end, four objectives were defined: First, to develop a grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) of players’ use of…
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Four functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of pitch processing in auditory cortex were designed to reduce the impact of a number of methodological issues that have hitherto limited previous research findings. Due to adaptation effects, it is necessary to repeatedl…
The thesis of this project is that efficient representation of ordinal information in symbolic numbers (e.g., Indo-Arabic numerals) is a crucial link between one's fundamental sense of quantity and more complex mathematics. In Chapter 1, we show that the meaning of symbolic numb…
Background: Exposure to traumatic stress and adversity during the formative years of development can have adverse effects on mental health, neuroendocrine stress system function, and the brain, that persist into adulthood. One candidate mechanism that might confer vulnerability …
In order to develop more effective rehabilitative therapies for stroke patients, we must understand what biological barriers limit functional recovery. Here we study functional recovery after stroke in the visual domain where recovery can be easily quantified with visual field t…
Parental history of substance abuse (PHA) is linked to increased risk for alcohol use problems; however, the cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of this relationship are not well understood. Emerging research suggests PHA is associated with poorer executive functioning (EF)…
Childhood emotional abuse (EA) and attachment insecurity oftentimes co-occur and moderate and mediate relationships among psychopathology and cognitive dysfunction into adulthood. However, these phenomena are often studied independently in parallel literatures and frequently foc…
Rising prevalence of childhood psychopathology mandate investigation into the antecedents of symptom onset. Growing evidence shows prenatal maternal stress experienced in utero is a strong contributor to offspring neurodevelopmental deficits, including emotion dysregulation, a c…
Since its inception in the early 2000s, social media has quickly become a meaningful source of online community for people across the globe. The use of promotional advertising on social media has brought both helpful and potentially harmful exposure to a wide variety of informat…
Neural systems do not exist in stasis; rather the brain is composed of an ever-evolving ensemble of neural networks that are responsible for changes in behavior and cognition across the lifespan. However, our understanding of these processes in the field of developmental neuroim…