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.
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- McBeath, Michael K
- 2 Arizona State University
- 1 Amazeen, Eric L
- 1 Baxter, Leslie C
- 1 Dorman, Michael F
- 1 Holloway, Steven Robert
- 1 Homa, Donald
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- 1 Macknik, Stephen
- 1 Náñez, Sr., José E
- 1 Patten, Kristopher Jakob
- 2 English
- 2 Public
- Neurosciences
- 1 Acoustics
- 1 Associative Learning
- 1 Auditory Learning
- 1 Cognitive Neuroscience
- 1 Cognitive psychology
- 1 Perceptual Learning
- more
- 1 Psychology
- 1 Reading Disability
- 1 Task-Irrelevant Learning
- 1 auditory perception
- 1 auditory scene analysis
- 1 consonance
- 1 emotion
- 1 fMRI
- 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
Watanabe, Náñez, and Sasaki (2001) introduced a phenomenon they named “task-irrelevant perceptual learning” in which near-threshold stimuli that are not essential to a given task can be associatively learned when consistently and concurrently paired with the focal task. The present study employs a visual paired-shapes recognition task, using colored polygon targets as salient attended focal stimuli, with the goal of comparing the increases in perceptual sensitivity observed when near-threshold stimuli are temporally paired in varying manners with focal targets. Experiment 1 separated and compared the target-acquisition and target-recognition phases and revealed that sensitivity improved most when the near-threshold motion stimuli …
- Contributors
- Holloway, Steven Robert, McBeath, Michael K, Macknik, Stephen, et al.
- Created Date
- 2016
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