Vassar College

Receptive-field remapping and trans-saccadic space updating

Since its discovery, perisaccadic receptive-field (RF) remapping—the shift of RFs around the time of saccades—has inspired many studies exploring its origins, characteristics, and functional implications. We review recent developments leading to a circuit model that links spatiot...

Not “Born that Way”: Homophobic Social Preferences and Non‐Essentialism of Sexual Orientation in Childhood

ABSTRACT Although prejudice begins early in development, very few studies examine the developmental roots of homophobia. We explored the onset and developmental timecourse of homophobic social preferences as well as the cognitive and environmental factors predicting these prefere...

Associations of Brain Structure and Neuropsychological Function With Artificial Intelligence Estimates of Biological Vascular Age

BACKGROUND: Accelerated vascular aging, assessed as artificial intelligence–based vascular age (AIVA), is associated with small vessel disease that may impact brain structure and neuropsychological function. METHODS: In a cross-section of Framingham Heart Study participants, AIVA...

Geometry-controlled instability pathway selection in elastic helices enables fast, efficient robotic locomotion

Mechanical instabilities can convert slow actuation into rapid, amplified motion, but predicting whether a three-dimensional elastic structure buckles smoothly or snaps remains challenging. Here, we show that helix geometry and boundary loading jointly select continuous buckling...

The nature of international boundaries

Border scholars reject the concept of “natural boundaries” in relation to territorial divides, insisting that their locations are products of human artifice. A side effect of such analyses is that scholars have infrequently explored nature in relation to the making of boundaries,...