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Navigating expectations for sustainable product design: a discursive psychology analysis of designers’ accounts
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-24)Sustainable design is vital to achieving sustainable development. It is commonly argued that designers should ensure more sustainable design decisions are made, based on environmental values, and should take responsibility ... -
Relation learning and reasoning on computational models of high level cognition
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-18)Relational reasoning is central to many cognitive processes, ranging from “lower” processes like object recognition to “higher” processes such as analogy-making and sequential decision-making. The first chapter of this ... -
Symbolic-connectionist model of relation learning and visual reasoning
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-17)Humans regularly reason from visual information, engaging in simple object search in a scene to abstract mathematical thinking. In recent decades, the field of machine learning has extensively focused on visual tasks ... -
Understanding long-term forgetting in the healthy and clinical population: evidence from different research paradigms and methods
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-10-20)Memory and forgetting are closely related, yet cognitive research has neglected the topic of long-term forgetting, leaving several questions unanswered. From a theoretical point of view, understanding the dynamics of ... -
Longitudinal depression trajectories: the persistence of depression symptomology and their genetic & environmental underpinnings from mid- to later-life
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-10-04)The work contained within this thesis primarily focused on estimating depression symptom score trajectories in mid- to late-life. There has been little consistency in the literature concerning such phenotypic trajectories, ... -
Decision-making and memory: an investigation on the recollection of a moral dilemma
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-06)Individuals inevitably face situations where they have to choose between several options with uncertain future outcomes. This decision-making process can occur in various contexts such as getting the COVID vaccine, ... -
Reporting racism in the public domain
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)Semantic parsing is the task of translating natural language utterances onto machineinterpretable programs, which can be executed against a real-world environment to obtain desired responses (e.g., a SQL query against a ... -
Bilingual encoding strategies during the production of motion event utterances
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-28)When describing motion events, English speakers tend to encode the manner of motion in the verb (e.g., A penguin is skiing into an igloo), whereas Spanish speakers tend to express the path or trajectory of motion in the ... -
Rate of forgetting is independent from initial degree of learning
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-28)Research on forgetting has extensively explored factors that modify the rate at which information is forgotten. However, the question of whether initial degree of retention influences the rates of forgetting has been ... -
Computational modelling of social cognition and behaviour
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-08)Philosophers have always been interested in asking moral questions, but social scientists have generally been more occupied with asking questions about morality. How do people differ with regards to their morality? How ... -
Exploring frailty and cognitive functioning trajectories in later life
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-25)Understanding the ageing process in later life is a crucial step in identifying those at highest risk of health decline, and in implementing effective prevention and treatment strategies. However, measuring the ageing ... -
Investigation of the associations between intelligence in youth and a range of physical health, mental health, and health behaviour outcomes in childhood, adolescence, and middle age
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Neuropsychiatric disorders in motor neurone disease kindreds: clinical and subclinical symptoms and their relationship with cognition and behaviour
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-08-27)BACKGROUND: Motor neurone disease (MND), of which amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common, and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) occur on a spectrum, overlapping clinically, pathologically and genetically. Family ... -
Investigating personality differences using nuance-level traits and links with health
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-03-09)Research on personality differences has been well-established on the levels of broad personality domains such as the Big Five and their more specific facets. Over the past decade, a small number of researchers have proposed ... -
Human-dog bond: personality and attachment
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-01)To assess variables associated with a mutual human-dog bond, a new scale was developed to measure dog owner’s relationship satisfaction and Ainsworth’s Strange Situation Test (SST) was used to measure the attachment ... -
Power and objectification: the sexual objectification of women in positions of power
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)The aim of this thesis is to examine the relationship between women’s power in a professional setting and their sexual objectification. Across five experiments this thesis provides robust support for the hypothesis that ... -
Effects of affective factors on cognitive control engagement in childhood and adulthood
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)Childhood is a period of protracted gains in cognitive control, with increasingly flexible and efficient engagement of cognitive resources as a function of task demands. In particular, children progressively shift from ... -
Co-occurring mental health problems across childhood and adolescence: within-person developmental relations, mediators and antecedents
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)Approximately 10 to 20% of children and adolescents suffer from a mental health condition. In addition, more than 40% of these children are likely to develop at least one additional mental illness concurrently or later in ... -
Characterising the effect of semantic and perceptual similarity in episodic memory
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)This thesis investigated the contribution of semantic and perceptual similarity to mnemonic discrimination, defined as the ability to recognize previously encountered events and to discriminate them from similar ones to ...
