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11A considerable body of research has documented the emergence of what appears to be instrumental helping behavior in early childhood. The current study tested the hypothesis that one basic psychological mechanism motivating this behavior is a preference for completing unfinished actions. To test this, a paradigm was implemented in which 2-year-olds (n = 34, 16 female/18 male, mostly White middle-class children) could continue an adult’s action when the adult no longer wanted to complete the actio…Read more
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17David Novak, natural law, and medieval jewish philosophyJournal of Religious Ethics 49 (4): 638-656. 2021.Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 638-656, December 2021.
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32Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortices Differentially Lateralize Prediction Errors and Outcome Valence in a Decision-Making TaskFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 12. 2018.
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19A considerable body of research has documented the emergence of what appears to be instrumental helping behavior in early childhood. The current study tested the hypothesis that one basic psychological mechanism motivating this behavior is a preference for completing unfinished actions. To test this, a paradigm was implemented in which 2-year-olds (n = 34, 16 female/18 male, mostly White middle-class children) could continue an adult’s action when the adult no longer wanted to complete the actio…Read more
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8Previous research has established that goal tracking emerges early in the first year of life and rapidly becomes increasingly sophisticated. However, it has not yet been shown whether young children continue to update their representations of others’ goals over time. The current study investigates this by probing young children’s (24-30 months old) ability to differentiate between goal directed actions that have been halted because the goal was interrupted, and because the goal was abandoned. To…Read more
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11Jewish virtue ethics (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2023.Expands the horizons of Jewish virtue ethics, demonstrating how central virtue has been to the history of Jewish ethics.
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19Cognitive Science, Volume 46, Issue 6, June 2022.
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19Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Information Processing in the Human Dorsal Anterior Cingulate CortexFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 16. 2022.The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex is a key node in the human salience network. It has been ascribed motor, pain-processing and affective functions. However, the dynamics of information flow in this complex region and how it responds to inputs remain unclear and are difficult to study using non-invasive electrophysiology. The area is targeted by neurosurgery to treat neuropathic pain. During deep brain stimulation surgery, we recorded local field potentials from this region in humans during a …Read more
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26Stopping at nothing : two-year-olds differentiate between interrupted and abandoned goalsJournal of Experimental Child Psychology. forthcoming.Previous research has established that goal tracking emerges early in the first year of life and rapidly becomes increasingly sophisticated. However, it has not yet been shown whether young children continue to update their representations of others’ goals over time. The current study investigates this by probing young children’s ability to differentiate between goal directed actions that have been halted because the goal was interrupted, and because the goal was abandoned. To test whether child…Read more
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1The Virtue Ethics of Levi GersonidesSpringer International Publishing. 2016.This book argues that Levi Gersonides articulates a unique model of virtue ethics among medieval Jewish thinkers. Gersonides is recognized by scholars as one of the most innovative Jewish philosophers of the medieval period. His first model of virtue is a response to the seemingly capricious forces of luck through training in endeavor, diligence, and cunning aimed at physical self-preservation. His second model of virtue is altruistic in nature. It is based on the human imitation of God as creat…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |