Graduate Program - Recent Dissertations
2007
Sherry Shu-Jung Hu. Characterization of Endogenous Prostaglandin E2, Glycerol Ester (PGE2-G), A COX-2 Metabolite of 2-Arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), in Pain and Inflammation.(Advisor: J. Walker)
Qing (Cheng) Liu. In Vitro and In Vivo Evidence for a Role of a Cannabinoid in Suppression of Neuropathic Pain.(Advisor: J. Walker)
Mika L.M. MacInnis. Attributes of an Effective Stimulus.(Advisor: R. Church)
Amy K. Marks. Being Bicultural: Developing Ethnic Identities in Middle Childhood and Adolescence.(Advisor: C. Garcia-Coll)
Hilary E. Stebbins. Interactions Between Learning Mode and Category Structure in the Acquisition of Categorical Information.(Advisor: W. Heindel)
Thomas Templin. Histomorphological and Histochemical Development of the Superior Olive and the Lateral Lemniscus in Rana Catesbeiana Across Metamorphosis.(Advisor: A. Simmons)
Eliza Van Reen. Does Timing of Alcohol Administration Differentially Affect Sleep and the Sleep EEG?(Advisor: M. Carskadon)
Jan Engelmann. Neural Correlates of Incentive Motivation During Goal-Directed Cognition.(Advisor: L. Pessoa)
2006
Steven Seow. The Effects of Subdivision of Time Intervals on Continuation Timing. (Advisor: R. Church)
Constance Chu. N-Acyl-Dopamines as a New Class of Nociceptive Signalling Molecules. (Advisor: J. M. Walker)
Tracy L. Rupp. Consequences of Late Nights with and without Alcohol on Simulated Driving, Reaction Time and Sleepiness in Young Adults.(Advisor: M. Carskadon)
2005
Paulo Guilhardi. A Unified Approach to the Study of Choice, Conditioning, and Timing. (Advisor: R. Church)
Susan Mei-Ching Huang. Endogenous Fatty Acid Amides and Pain Modulation. (Advisor: J. M. Walker)
2004
Jason R. Taylor. On the Perceptual Basis of Semantic Memory: Representation, Process, and Attentional Control Revealed by Behavior and Event-Related Brain Potentials. (Advisor: W Heindel)
2002
Cullen Jackson. The Role of Illumination in Face Recognition: Evidence for Illumination Dependent Representations Using Psychophysics and Computation. (Advisor: L. Welch)
Melissa Acevedo. The Effects of Social Projection & Payoff on Cooperative Behavior in the Prisoner's Dilemma. (Advisor: J. Krueger)
Beth A. Kellerman. Effects of Emotionality on Implicit and Explicit Memory for Verbal Stimuli. (Advisor: W. Heindel)
Jason T. Machan. Anticipatory Tracking of Serial Patterns of Temporal Intervals: Evidence for Pairwise Associative Chaining with Stimulus Generalization. (Advisor: R. Church)
2001
David Landsberger. Color Constancy from Chromatic Adaptation. (Advisor: B. Wooten)
Micheal (Mickey) Inzlicht. A Threatening Intellectual Environment: When and Why Females are Susceptible to Experiencing Problem-Solving Deficits in the Presence of Males. (Advisor: T. Ben-Zeev)
2000
Galit Naor-Raz. Understanding the Role of Color in Object Representation: Evidence for Multiple Levels of Interaction. (Advisor: M. Tarr)
Nicole M. Strangman. Evidence for a Role of Cannabinoids in the Suppression of Pain. (Advisor: J. M. Walker)
1999
Carol R. Leotta. Effects of Acute Sleep Restriction on Affective Response. (Advisor: M. Carskadon)
1998
Matthew Drinkwater. From Trait Attribution to Behavioral Prediction: How Dispositional Knowledge Can Strengthen and Undermine Valid Social Inference. (Advisor: J. Wright)
Elena Kristie Festa Martino. Integration Mechanisms for Visual Motion Processing. (Advisor: B Shepp)
Rashi Sinha. Neuropsychological Substrates of Category Learning. (Advisor: W. Heindel)