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19Dennis Des chene, spirits and clocks: Machine and organism in Descartes. Ithaca and London: Cornell university press, 2001. Pp. XIII+181. Isbn 0-8014-3764-4. 25.95 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 36 (2): 233-235. 2003.
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18Sociocultural memory development research drives new directions in gadgetry scienceBehavioral and Brain Sciences 42. 2019.Sociocultural developmental psychology can drive new directions in gadgetry science. We use autobiographical memory, a compound capacity incorporating episodic memory, as a case study. Autobiographical memory emerges late in development, supported by interactions with parents. Intervention research highlights the causal influence of these interactions, whereas cross-cultural research demonstrates culturally determined diversity. Different patterns of inheritance are discussed.
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17Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill (edited book)Methuen Drama. 2022.Cutting-edge scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, psychology, philosophy and sport science is brought together to ask: What do individuals bring to and do in collaborative embodied performance? How do group members with distinct capacities complement each other in skilled action? Innovative methodological approaches are applied to detailed case studies from martial arts, tango, social interaction, English Restoration Theatre, Body Weather, traditional and…Read more
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16Ageing Together: Interdependence in the Memory Compensation Strategies of Long-Married Older CouplesFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.People live and age together in social groups. Across a range of outcomes, research has identified interdependence in the cognitive and health trajectories of ageing couples. Various types of memory decline with age and people report using a range of internal and external, social, and material strategies to compensate for these declines. While memory compensation strategies have been widely studied, research so far has focused only on single individuals. We examined interdependence in the memory…Read more
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16Don Dedrick, Naming the Rainbow: Colour Language, Colour Science, and Culture Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 21 (2): 106-109. 2001.If the so-called 'science wars' are futile shouting-matches between extremists, some of the more bewildering skirmishes have been contested in the realm of colour science and culture. Ethnographers, postmodernists, and Wittgensteinians stress the specificity of local colour naming strategies, or the peculiarity of objects and emotions with which colours are associated, and may confess lingering attraction to Whorf's idea that cultures carve up an intrinsically unstructured colour space into quit…Read more
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14Elizabeth A. Wilson, Neural Geographies: feminism and the microstructure of cognition Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (4): 299-301. 1999.Writing within and against the set critical practices of psychoanalytic-deconstructive-Foucauldian-feminist cultural theory, Elizabeth Wilson demonstrates, in this provocative and original book, the productivity and the pleasure of direct, complicitous engagement with the contemporary cognitive sciences. Wilson forges an eclectic method in reaction to the 'zealous but disavowed moralism' of those high cultural Theorists whose 'disciplining compulsion' concocts a monolithic picture of science in …Read more
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13To Think or Not To Think: The apparent paradox of expert skill in music performanceEducational Philosophy and Theory 46 (6): 674-691. 2014.Expert skill in music performance involves an apparent paradox. On stage, expert musicians are required accurately to retrieve information that has been encoded over hours of practice. Yet they must also remain open to the demands of the ever-changing situational contingencies with which they are faced during performance. To further explore this apparent paradox and the way in which it is negotiated by expert musicians, this article profiles theories presented by Roger Chaffin, Hubert Dreyfus an…Read more
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13Collaborative Remembering: Theories, Research, Applications (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.We remember in social contexts. We reminisce about the past together, collaborate to remember shared experiences, and, even when we are alone, we remember in the context of our communities and cultures. Taking an interdisciplinary approach throughout, this text comprehensively covers collaborative remembering across the fields of developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, social psychology, discourse processing, philosophy, neuropsychology, design, and media studies. It highlights points of…Read more
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12Re-tracing the encounter: Interkinaesthetic forms of knowledge in Contact ImprovisationAntropologia E Teatro 7 (7): 226-243. 2016.We adopted a phenomenological approach, directly engaging with the community of practice of the form of movement under study. We discuss some methodological approaches that we considered in investigating the lived experience of a heterogeneous group of Contact Improvisation (CI) practitioners. We delineate how such a system of movement could provide a unique example for the analysis of the interpersonal dynamics between movers with a different degree of expertise, re-tracing some common paths to…Read more
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11Interacting to remember at multiple timescalesInteraction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies / Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies 16 (3): 419-450. 2015.Everyday joint remembering, from family remembering around the dinner table to team remembering in the operating theatre, relies on the successful interweaving of multiple cognitive, bodily, social and material resources, anchored in specific cultural ecosystems. Such systems for joint remembering in social interactions are composed of processes unfolding over multiple but complementary timescales, which we distinguish for analytic purposes so as better to study their interanimation in practice:…Read more
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8Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes (review)British Journal for the History of Science 36 (2): 233-235. 2003.
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6Rossi, Paolo, Logic and the Art of MemoryAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (1): 151-152. 2003.This translation of a classic and original work of intellectual history is beautifully done. Rossi’s book Clavis Universalis was first published in Italian in 1960, but Clucas translates the second, revised edition of 1983. The book is about Renaissance and 17th-century encyclopedism, hieroglyphics and cryptography, the techniques of artificial memory, the history of rhetoric, changes in views about logic and method in the scientific revolution, and new ideas about how language and images mig…Read more
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1Distributed Cognition and Memory Research (special issue) (edited book)Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 2013.
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Memory and PerspectiveIn Sven Bernecker & Kourken Michaelian (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory, Routledge. 2017.
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Multiperspectival Imagery: Sartre and Cognitive Theory on Point of View in Remembering and Imagining.In Jack Reynolds & Ricky Sebold (eds.), Phenomenology and Science, Palgrave-macmillan. 2016.
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Mnemicity - A cognitive gadget?Perspectives on Psychological Science 1 (1). 2023.Episodic representations can be entertained either as “remembered” or “imagined”—as outcomes of experience or as simulations of such experience. Here, we argue that this feature is the product of a dedicated cognitive function: the metacognitive capacity to determine the mnemicity of mental event simulations. We argue that mnemicity attribution should be distinguished from other metacognitive operations (such as reality monitoring) and propose that this attribution is a “cognitive gadget”—a dist…Read more