Browsing RPI Theses Open Access by Author "Kalsher, Michael J."
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Disagreeing with Jack Valenti : a linguistic examination of prestigious media awards for film, television, and music
McCullough, Hayley (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-05)My research contributes to both the greater research literature on predicting outcomes for media awards and the more specific literature on integrative complexity’s manifestations in pop culture and entertainment media. ... -
Learning to coordinate a redundant motor system : the role of postural comfort
Barton, Sean L. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-12)When realizing a motor goal, actors have access to a large number of redundant action possibilities from which a particular movement must be selected. Comfort has been shown to play an important role in the selection of ... -
Modeling a recognition memory task to investigate differences in working memory
Buss, Ryan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-12)Investigating the sources of individual differences in human working memory, Oztekin and McElree (2010) used subject performance in a recognition memory task to argue that the interplay between item familiarity information ... -
Moving objects are accurately perceived in an allocentric environment during locomotion
Parade, Melissa S. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-05)An allocentric frame of reference is necessary to control flexible interaction with the world, but the optical stimulus is received in an egocentric frame of reference. This means that if an animal moves in the presence ... -
The role of vision and biomechanics when walking over rough terrain
Barton, Sean Linnaeus (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2017-12)In order to take action in the world, humans require coordination between per- ceptual information about the environment and the action capabilities endowed to us by the structure of our bodies. Within the context of ... -
The sum of its parts : a three part framework for developing models of individual performance in the context of a team
Sangster, Matthew-Donald D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2019-08)Theories of learning and memory often rely on individual measures of performance for tasks in a given domain. However, when expanding these works to individuals in a team, many difficulties arise. The very nature of team ... -
Visual control of foot placement when walking over complex terrain
Matthis, Jonathan Samir (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-08)In Experiment 1, I demonstrated that two step lengths of visual look ahead is sufficient for humans to walk over complex terrain while exploiting the inverted-pendulum-like structure of bipedal gait as efficiently as they ...