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Dissertations from 2023
The Resolution of Proactive Interference in Young Children, Mollie Dalton Hamilton
Dissertations from 2022
On the Roles of Trait Anxiety and Toll Like Receptor 4 in Amphetamine Sensitization in Adolescent Male Rats, Corey A. Calhoun
Dissertations from 2021
The Effects of Gonadal Steroids During Puberty on Brain, Behavior, and Metabolism in the B6D2F1 Hybrid Male Mouse, Caroline D. David
The Development of Visual Temporal Processing, Julie Freschl
Dissertations from 2020
Corticosteroid-Dependent Regulation of Retrotransposable Elements, Andrew A. Bartlett
Frequency Distribution in Phoneme Learning Across the Lifespan, Mihye Choi
The Role of Attention in Perceiving Seen and Heard Emotional Information, Sarah C. Izen
Exploring Physiological, Behavioral, and Situational Indices of Infant Regulatory Capacity to Stress in the First Year of Life, Isabelle Mueller
Gonadal Steroid-Independent Sexual Behavior in Female and Male B6D2F1 Gonadectomized Mice, Jay Scott Templin
Dissertations from 2019
The Early Development of Visual Working Memory, Chen Cheng
Sexually Dimorphic Serotonin System Development Mediates Sex-Specific Neuronal Excitability, Kimbra A. Edwards
Environmental Disruption of the Developmental System During Early Life, Hannah E. Lapp
Investigating the Role of CXCL12 and CXCR4 in Addiction: Age, Sex, and Environment Matters, Briana Marie Mason
Dissertations from 2018
Sex Differences in the Brain are Not Binary: Evidence from the Sexual Differentiation of Complex Behavior and the Influence of Serotonin on the Developing Hypothalamus, Amanda M.K. Madden
The Early Development of Visual Attentional Mechanisms in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Hayley Smith
Dissertations from 2017
Exploring Toddlers' Use of Language to Update Mental Representations: Evidence from Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder, Allison Fitch
The Role of Glucocorticoid Receptors on the Expression of Transposable Elements in the Rat Hippocampus, Brian B. Griffiths
Attentional Influences on Visual Working Memory in Development, Sylvia B. Guillory
The Temporal and Functional Factors Underlying Short-Term Monocular Deprivation Effects in the Adult Human Visual System, Mahalakshmi Ramamurthy