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17How to Compose Contents A Review of Jerry Fodor's In Critical Condition: Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of MindPSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 8. 2002.The paper critically reviews Jerry Fodor's book In Critical Condition: Polemic Essays on Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind. It focuses on Fodor's compositionality arguments and their relevance to the following questions: How should concepts be individuated? What has semantics to do with epistemology? Who is right in the debate over classical and connectionist theories of cognition? How can the semantic properties of a mental state be inherited from the semantic properties of the state…Read more
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17Investigating the Comprehension of Negated Sentences Employing World Knowledge: An Event-Related Potential StudyFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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16Reading words hurts: the impact of pain sensitivity on people’s ratings of pain-related wordsLanguage and Cognition 9 (3): 553-567. 2017.This study explores the relation between pain sensitivity and the cognitive processing of words. 130 participants evaluated the pain-relatedness of a total of 600 two-syllabic nouns, and subsequently reported on their own pain sensitivity. The results demonstrate that pain-sensitive people associate words more strongly with pain than less sensitive people. In particular, concrete nouns like ‘syringe’, ‘wound’, ‘knife’, and ‘cactus’ are considered to be more pain-related for those who are more pa…Read more
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14Neuronal Synchronization, Covariation, and Compositional RepresentationIn Gerhard Schurz, Edouard Machery & Markus Werning (eds.), Applications to Linguistics, Psychology and Neuroscience, De Gruyter. pp. 283-312. 2005.
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11The “complex first” paradoxInteraction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies / Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies 9 (1): 67-83. 2008.The Complex-First Paradox regards the semantics of nouns and consists of a set of together incompatible, but individually well confirmed propositions about the evolution and development of language, the semantics of word classes and the cortical realization of word meaning. Theoretical and empirical considerations support the view that the concepts expressed by concrete nouns are more complex and their neural realizations more widely distributed in cortex than those expressed by other word class…Read more
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10High- vs Low-Level Cognition and the Neuro- Emulative Theory of Mental RepresentationIn Ulrich Gähde, Stephan Hartmann & Jörn Henning Wolf (eds.), Models, Simulations, and the Reduction of Complexity, De Gruyter. pp. 141-152. 2013.
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8Right and Wrong Reasons for CompositionalityIn Markus Werning, Edouard Machery & Gerhard Schurz (eds.), The Compositionality of Meaning and Content. Volume I - Foundational Issues,, De Gruyter. pp. 285-310. 2005.
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Reading Words Hurts: The impact of pain sensitivity on people’s ratings of pain-related words.In Erica Cosentino, Markus Werning & Kevin Reuter (eds.), Reading Words Hurts: The impact of pain sensitivity on people’s ratings of pain-related words, . 2015.
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Lexicon in action: N400 effect on affordances and telicity.In P. Bello (ed.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, Tx: Cognitive Science Society. pp. 2079-84. 2014.