Browsing by Subject "perception"
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Cupidine Caeci: The Ethics of Perception in Lucretius' De rerum natura IV
(2019-08-30)This thesis seeks to find a unity in the fourth book of Lucretius’ De rerum natura by considering the relationship between the book’s exposition of the Epicurean perceptual doctrine of simulacra and its concluding indictment ... -
A Defamiliarized Architecture: [RE]Iterative Readings of a Text
(2019-08-29)This thesis explores a design methodology reflecting Viktor Shklovsky’s concept “defamiliarization”. Defamiliarization is a technique used to make something unfamiliar, or strange, in order to enhance the perceptions of ... -
Dimming the City
(2017-08-08)This thesis addresses light pollution, specifically over-illumination, in cities. It examines the history of artificial lighting, the consequences of excessive light, and the motivations for its continued overuse: fear and ... -
Neurobiological and Epigenetic Substrates of Learning, Memory, and Behavioural Flexibility in Three Songbird Species: the Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus), Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia castanotis), and European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
(2023-08-29)Songbirds rely on learning, perceiving, and producing complex vocalizations to perform critical functions such as conspecific identification, mate selection, and territory defence These cognitive processes are influenced ... -
Perceptual and Motor IOR: Components or Flavours?
(2011-05-02)The most common evidence for inhibition of return (IOR) is the robust finding of increased response times to targets that appear at previously cued locations following a cue-target interval exceeding ~ 300 ms. In a ... -
A three-channel model of human binaural sound localization
(2012-03-30)The most accepted model of mammalian binaural sound localization postulates two neural/perceptual channels with hemifield tuning and overlapping medial borders; the extent to which the two channels are co-activated by the ...