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O. Siciliani, "Fondamenti critici di psicopatologia generale" (review)Epistemologia 2 (2): 443. 1979.
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11Spatial and Motor Aspects in the “Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect”Frontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.The Action-sentence Compatibility Effect is often taken as supporting the fundamental role of the motor system in understanding sentences that describe actions. This effect would be related to an internal “simulation,” i.e., the reactivation of past perceptual and motor experiences. However, it is not easy to establish whether this simulation predominantly involves spatial imagery or motor anticipation. In the classical ACE experiments, where a real motor response is required, the direction and …Read more
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163The basic problem of this investigation concerns how is it that an individual "understands" or "comprehends" what another communicates and, sometimes, even what he does not communicate but of which he has experience. We would like here to take stock of the models that psychology currently has available to study the phenomenon of interpersonal understanding,using a cognitive approach, and to propose some working hypotheses that in our opinion could guide further research.
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140Heuristic value of simulation models in psychologyHttps://Web-Archive.Southampton.Ac.Uk/Cogprints.Org/285/1/Heurist.Htm. 1983.Starting from some remarks about the use of models in psychology, Human Information Processing (henceforth called H.I.P.) models which sometimes use computer simulation will be examined. An attempt to show that simulation in psychology does not necessarily imply an H.I.P. approach is then made.
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136The problem discussed in this paper arises from the observation that in the course of inter-subjective communication "understanding" seems to be entrusted to the implementation of a real process, not only affective but also cognitive, of processing information contained in the perceived behavior. In a previous study (Greco, 1979) we proposed to consider this process of "reconstruction" of meaning as analogous to the process of "construction" used for oneself. Here we will deal with this process …Read more
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17Review of:'The search for mind', by S. O Nuallain (review)Philosophical Psychology 10 (2): 254-256. 1997.
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44Selecting Presuppositions in Conditional Clauses. Results from a Psycholinguistic ExperimentFrontiers in Psychology 6. 2015.
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1040The cognitive load of presupposition triggers: mandatory and optional repairs in presupposition failureLanguage, Cognition and Neuroscience 29 (1): 136-146. 2014.
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155Symbol grounding and the symbolic theft hypothesisIn Angelo Cangelosi & Domenico Parisi (eds.), Simulating the Evolution of Language, Springer Verlag. pp. 191--210. 2002.Scholars studying the origins and evolution of language are also interested in the general issue of the evolution of cognition. Language is not an isolated capability of the individual, but has intrinsic relationships with many other behavioral, cognitive, and social abilities. By understanding the mechanisms underlying the evolution of linguistic abilities, it is possible to understand the evolution of cognitive abilities. Cognitivism, one of the current approaches in psychology and cognitive s…Read more
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21Book reviews (review)Philosophical Psychology 10 (2): 231-257. 1997.Consciousness and experience, William G. Lycan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. ISBN 0–262–12197–2 (hc)Mind as motion: explorations in the dynamics of cognition, Robert Port & Timothy Van Gelder (Eds). Cambridge, MA: MIT/Bradford, 1995. ISBN 0–262–16150–8Perception, Kathleen Akins (Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0–19–508461 (hbk); 0–19–508462–4 (pbk)Context and consciousness, B. Nardi (Ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. ISBN: 0–262–14058–6Catching ourselves in the act, Ho…Read more
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38Propositional attitudes towards presuppositionsPragmatics and Cognition 22 (3): 291-308. 2014.According to the Common Ground account proposed by Stalnaker, speakers involved in a verbal interaction have different propositional attitudes towards presuppositions. In this paper we propose an experimental study aimed at estimating the psychological plausibility of the Stalnakerian model. In particular, the goal of our experiment is to evaluate variations in accepting as appropriate a sentence that triggers a presupposition, where different attitudes are taken towards the presupposition requi…Read more
Alberto Greco
Università Di Genova