Timothy Verstynen & Bradley Voytek. Princeton University Press (2014). * Winner of the
Dissertations
"Level set trees for applied statistics" Brian Kent (Ph.D., CMU Statistics, 2012) (pdf)
"A biologically motivated synthesis of accumulator and reinforcement-learning models for describing adaptive decision-making" Kyle Dunovan (Ph.D., Pitt Psychology, 2016) (pdf)
"Cortical and behavioral signatures of response binding during sequential skill learning" Patrick Beukema (Ph.D., Pitt Neuroscience, 2018) (pdf)
"A corticostriatal mechanism for integrating subjective value into processes of risky decision-making" Kevin Jarbo (Ph.D., CMU Psychology, 2018) (pdf)
"Adaptive decision policy dynamics" Krista Bond (Ph.D., CMU Psychology, 2022) (pdf)
"Measuring abstract concepts using fMRI and the Implicit Semantic Accessibility Procedure: Implication for measuring representational structures across social groups" Robert Vargas (Ph.D., CMU Psychology, 2022) (pdf)
"Imaging the relationship between the brain, heart and cardiovascular disease risk" Amy Sentis (Ph.D., CMU Program in Neural Computation, 2023) (pdf)
"Basal ganglia dynamics in structure learning" Matthew Clapp (Ph.D., CMU Program in Neural Computation, 2024) (pdf)
"Imagination boosts strategy learning in artificial and human agents" Jack Burges (Ph.D., CMU Program in Neural Computation, 2025) (pdf)
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