ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at gradformat@asu.edu.
- Arizona State University
- 1 Amazeen, Eric L
- 1 Baxter, Leslie C
- 1 Braden, Brittany B
- 1 Catchings, Michael Thomas
- 1 Dorman, Michael F
- 1 Greger, Bradley
- more
- 1 McBeath, Michael K
- 1 Patten, Kristopher Jakob
- 1 Schaefer, Sydney
- 2 English
- 2 Public
- Neurosciences
- fMRI
- 1 Acoustics
- 1 Adults
- 1 Aging
- 1 Autism
- 1 Biomarker
- more
- 1 Computer engineering
- 1 Graph Theory
- 1 Medical imaging
- 1 Psychology
- 1 auditory perception
- 1 auditory scene analysis
- 1 consonance
- 1 emotion
- 1 psychoacoustics
- Dwarf Galaxies as Laboratories of Protogalaxy Physics: Canonical Star Formation Laws at Low Metallicity
- Evolutionary Genetics of CORL Proteins
- Social Skills and Executive Functioning in Children with PCDH-19
- Deep Domain Fusion for Adaptive Image Classification
- Software Defined Pulse-Doppler Radar for Over-The-Air Applications: The Joint Radar-Communications Experiment
This study explores the psychophysical and neural processes associated with the perception of sounds as either pleasant or aversive. The underlying psychophysical theory is based on auditory scene analysis, the process through which listeners parse auditory signals into individual acoustic sources. The first experiment tests and confirms that a self-rated pleasantness continuum reliably exists for 20 various stimuli (r = .48). In addition, the pleasantness continuum correlated with the physical acoustic characteristics of consonance/dissonance (r = .78), which can facilitate auditory parsing processes. The second experiment uses an fMRI block design to test blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) changes elicited …
- Contributors
- Patten, Kristopher Jakob, McBeath, Michael K, Baxter, Leslie C, et al.
- Created Date
- 2014
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental neuropsychiatric condition with early childhood onset, thus most research has focused on characterizing brain function in young individuals. Little is understood about brain function differences in middle age and older adults with ASD, despite evidence of persistent and worsening cognitive symptoms. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in younger persons with ASD demonstrate that large-scale brain networks containing the prefrontal cortex are affected. A novel, threshold-selection-free graph theory metric is proposed as a more robust and sensitive method for tracking brain aging in ASD and is compared against five well-accepted graph theoretical analysis methods …
- Contributors
- Catchings, Michael Thomas, Braden, Brittany B, Greger, Bradley, et al.
- Created Date
- 2019