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    Embodiment in Religious Knowledge
    with Lawrence Barsalou, Ava Santos, and W. Kyle Simmons
    Journal of Cognition and Culture 5 (1-2): 14-57. 2005.
    Increasing evidence suggests that mundane knowledge about objects, people, and events is grounded in the brain's modality-specific systems. The modality-specific representations that become active to represent these entities in actual experience are later used to simulate them in their absence. In particular, simulations of perception, action, and mental states often appear to underlie the representation of knowledge, making it embodied and situated. Findings that support this conclusion are bri…Read more
  •  5
    Neurobiological Markers of Individual Differences in Omega-3 Fatty Acids Revealed by Multivariate fMRI
    with M. Tanveer Talukdar, Marta Zamroziewicz, and Christopher Zwilling
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 12. 2018.
  • Neuroanatomical variability of religiosity
    with Dimitrios Kapogiannis, Michael Su, Frank Krueger, and Jordan Grafman
    PLoS ONE 4 (9). 2009.
  •  13
    Causal reasoning with forces
    with Phillip Wolff
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
  •  10
    Lesion Mapping the Four-Factor Structure of Emotional Intelligence
    with Joachim T. Operskalski, Erick J. Paul, Roberto Colom, and Jordan Grafman
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
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    Motivated explanation
    with Richard Patterson and Joachim T. Operskalski
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
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    The embodied bases of supernatural concepts
    with Brian R. Cornwell and W. Kyle Simmons
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (6): 735-736. 2004.
    According to embodied cognition theory, our physical embodiment influences how we conceptualize entities, whether natural or supernatural. In serving central explanatory roles, supernatural entities (e.g., God) are represented implicitly as having unordinary properties that nevertheless do not violate our sensorimotor interactions with the physical world. We conjecture that other supernatural entities are similarly represented in explanatory contexts.
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    A Causal Model Theory of the Meaning of Cause, Enable, and Prevent
    with Steven Sloman and Jared M. Hotaling
    Cognitive Science 33 (1): 21-50. 2009.
    The verbs cause, enable, and prevent express beliefs about the way the world works. We offer a theory of their meaning in terms of the structure of those beliefs expressed using qualitative properties of causal models, a graphical framework for representing causal structure. We propose that these verbs refer to a causal model relevant to a discourse and that “A causes B” expresses the belief that the causal model includes a link from A to B. “A enables/allows B” entails that the model includes a…Read more
  •  23
    Base-rate respect: From statistical formats to cognitive structures
    with Steven A. Sloman
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (3): 287-292. 2007.
    The commentaries indicate a general agreement that one source of reduction of base-rate neglect involves making structural relations among relevant sets transparent. There is much less agreement, however, that this entails dual systems of reasoning. In this response, we make the case for our perspective on dual systems. We compare and contrast our view to the natural frequency hypothesis as formulated in the commentaries
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    According to the transitive dynamics model, people can construct causal structures by linking together configurations of force. The predictions of the model were tested in two experiments in which participants generated new causal relationships by chaining together two (Experiment 1) or three (Experiment 2) causal relations. The predictions of the transitive dynamics model were compared against those of Goldvarg and Johnson-Laird’s model theory (Goldvarg & Johnson- Laird, 2001). The transitive d…Read more
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    Assessing psychological theories of causal meaning and inference
    with S. Chaigneau
    In B. C. Love, K. McRae & V. M. Sloutsky (eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society. pp. 1111--1116. 2008.
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    Base-rate respect: From ecological rationality to dual processes
    with Steven A. Sloman
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (3): 241-254. 2007.
    The phenomenon of base-rate neglect has elicited much debate. One arena of debate concerns how people make judgments under conditions of uncertainty. Another more controversial arena concerns human rationality. In this target article, we attempt to unpack the perspectives in the literature on both kinds of issues and evaluate their ability to explain existing data and their conceptual coherence. From this evaluation we conclude that the best account of the data should be framed in terms of a dua…Read more