This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Neuroscience, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Role of Kisspeptin and KNDy Cells in the Reproductive Neuroendocrine System, Christina M. Merkley
Parkinson's Patients' Upper and Lower Limb Motor Impairments Differentially Influence Action Verb Processing, Peter Nguyen
Representation of faces in perirhinal cortex, Edward B. O'Neil
Understanding the Relationship between Perception and Production of the Beat, Taylor W. Parrott
Exploring the neural basis of top-down guided action in macaque monkeys, Jessica M. Phillips
Are Visual Texture-selective Areas Recruited During Haptic Texture Discrimination?, Samantha K. Podrebarac
Cognitive Roles of Anterior and Posterior Pedunculopontine Tegmentum Subregions, Jordan C. Robinson
Reaching for the light: The prioritization of conspicuous visual stimuli for reflexive target-directed reaching, Daniel K. Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Synaptic and Systems Memory Consolidation in the Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus), Matthew Barrett
Toward a Functional Characterization of Cognitive Control Networks, Frederick Ezekiel
Altered Auditory Feedback Causing Changes in the Vowel Production of Children with Specific Language Impairment, Emily Michaela Holmes
Differential Effects of Macaque Dorsolateral Prefrontal Deactivations During Uncued and Cued Role Conditions, Sabeeha Hussein
Brain connectivity studied by fMRI: homologous network organization in the rat, monkey, and human, R. Matthew Hutchison
The Importance of Situational Information for Abstract Concepts, Lisa M. King
Top-Down Modulation of Category Specific Extrastriate Cortex in a Task-Switching Paradigm, Katie Knapp
An Investigation of the Neural Mechanism by which the Prefrontal Cortex Facilitates Anti-saccade Task Performance, Michael J. Koval
Identification of a Molecular Opiate-Addiction Memory Switch in the Basolateral Amygdala, Danika C.A. Lyons
fMRI reveals the neural correlates of real and pantomimed tool use in humans, Joseph Umberto Paciocco
Effect of Menstrual Cycle Related Estrogen Fluctuations on Working Memory, Mia Segal
Social Episodic-Like Memory in the Black-Capped Chickadee (Poecile Atricapillus), Alisha A. Wiechers
On sensorimotor function and the relationship between proprioception and motor learning, Jeremy D. Wong
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Contributions of Signal-detection Mechanisms and Semantic Memory Representations to Famous Name Recognition, Ben P. Bowles
Contextual control of orienting eye-head gaze shifts in the monkey, Brendan B. Chapman
Decoding motor intentions from human brain activity, Jason P. Gallivan
Fluid Percussion Injury in the Rat as an Animal Model of Concussion: Cumulative Effects of Repeated Concussion and its Treatment by Anti-CD11d Antibody, Sandy RC Shultz
Sexual Differentiation in the Auditory System: An Investigation into Prenatal and Adult Sex Steroid Influences on Otoacoustic Emissions, Adrian W.K. Snihur
Septal Modulation of the Hippocampus, Siew Kian Tai
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Perception meets action: fMRI and behavioural investigations of human tool use, Kenneth F. Valyear