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31PDP Learnability and Innate Knowledge of LanguageIn S. Davis (ed.), Connectionism: Theorye and Practice, Oxford University Press. 1992.It is sometimes argued that if PDP networks can be trained to make correct judgements of grammaticality we have an existence proof that there is enough information in the stimulus to permit learning grammar by inductive means alone. This seems inconsistent superficially with Gold's theorem and at a deeper level with the fact that networks are designed on the basis of assumptions about the domain of the function to be learned. To clarify the issue I consider what we should learn from Gold's the…Read more
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14Time Course of Creativity in DanceFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.Time-motion studies revolutionized the design and efficiency of repetitive work last century. Would time-idea studies revolutionize the rules of intellectual/creative work this century? Collaborating with seven professional dancers, we set out to discover if there were any significant temporal patterns to be found in a timeline coded to show when dancers come up with ideas and when they modify or reject them. On each of 3 days, the dancers were given a choreographic problem to help them generate…Read more
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12Myślenie za pomocą reprezentacji zewnętrznychAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 5 (1): 94-125. 2014.
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11Consistency and Variation in Reasoning About Physical AssemblyCognitive Science 47 (12). 2023.The ability to reason about how things were made is a pervasive aspect of how humans make sense of physical objects. Such reasoning is useful for a range of everyday tasks, from assembling a piece of furniture to making a sandwich and knitting a sweater. What enables people to reason in this way even about novel objects, and how do people draw upon prior experience with an object to continually refine their understanding of how to create it? To explore these questions, we developed a virtual tas…Read more
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8Why We Use Our Hands When We ThinkProceedings of the Seventheenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 1995.A complementary strategy can be defined as any organizing activity which recruits external elements to reduce cognitive loads. Typical organizing activities include pointing, arranging the position and orientation of nearby objects, writing things down, manipulating counters, rulers or other artifacts that can encode the state of a process or simplify perception. To illustrate the idea of a complementary strategy, a simple experiment was performed in which subjects were asked to determine the do…Read more
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1Complementary Strategies - Why We Use Our Hands When We ThinkProceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (T): 161-175. 1995.A complementary strategy can be defined as any organizing activity which recruits external elements to reduce cognitive loads. Typical organizing activities include pointing, arranging the position and orientation of nearby objects, writing things down, manipulating counters, rulers or other artifacts that can encode the state of a process or simplify perception. To illustrate the idea of a complementary strategy, a simple experiment was performed in which subjects were asked to determine the do…Read more
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1Putting a price on cognitionIn Terence E. Horgan & John L. Tienson (eds.), Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 261--280. 1991.
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Complementary Strategies: Why we use our hands when we thinkAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 3 (T): 161-175. 2012.A complementary strategy can be defined as any organizing activity which recruits external elements to reduce cognitive loads. Typical organizing activities include pointing, arranging the position and orientation of nearby objects, writing things down, manipulating counters, rulers or other artifacts that can encode the state of a process or simplify perception. To illustrate the idea of a complementary strategy, a simple experiment was performed in which subjects were asked to determine the do…Read more
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Thinking with the BodyAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 3 (T): 176-194. 2012.To explore the question of physical thinking – using the body as an instrument of cognition – we collected extensive video and interview data on the creative process of a noted choreographer and his company as they made a new dance. A striking case of physical thinking is found in the phenomenon of marking. Marking refers to dancing a phrase in a less than complete manner. Dancers mark to save energy. But they also mark to explore the tempo of a phrase, or its movement sequence, or the intention…Read more
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Changing the Rules: Architecture in the New MillenniumJournal of Research Into New Media Technologies 7 (2): 113-125. 2001.Architecture is about to enter its first magical phase: a time when buildings actively co-operate with their inhabitants; when objects know what they are, where they are, what is near them; when social and physical space lose their type coupling; when wall and partitions change with mood and task. As engineers and scientists explore how to digitse the world around us, the classical constraints of design, ruled so long by the physics of space, time, and materials, are starting to crumble. Documen…Read more
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Poznanie ucieleśnione i magiczna przyszłość projektowania interakcjiAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 4 (2). 2013.
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Creative Cognition in ChoreographyProceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Creativity 1-6. 2011.Contemporary choreography offers a window onto creative processes that rely on harnessing the power of sensory sys- tems. Dancers use their body as a thing to think with and their sensory systems as engines to simulate ideas non- propositionally. We report here on an initial analysis of data collected in a lengthy ethnographic study of the making of a dance by a major choreographer and show how translating between different sensory modalities can help dancers and choreographer to be more creativ…Read more
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University of California, San DiegoProfessor
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Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPost-doctoral fellow
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Philosophy of Computing and Information |
Cognitive Sciences, Misc |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Philosophy of Computing and Information |