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62MemoryIn Massimo Marraffa & Alfredo Paternoster (eds.), Scienze cognitive: un'introduzione filosofica, Carocci. pp. 75-94. 2011.Remembering seems, to philosophers and scientists, one of the most mystifying of human activities. Yet natural language users have no problem understanding what is meant by ‘memory’. Memory is simply the ability to recall personally experienced events and certain kinds of information such as facts, names, or faces; or how to perform certain actions, like riding a bike or playing chess. It is on this basis that people sometimes make claims about themselves or others having a good or bad memory, e…Read more
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188Situated Affects and Place MemoryTopoi 43 1-14. 2024.Traces of many past events are often layered or superposed, in brain, body, and world alike. This often poses challenges for individuals and groups, both in accessing specific past events and in regulating or managing coexisting emotions or attitudes. We sometimes struggle, for example, to find appropriate modes of engagement with places with complex and difficult pasts. More generally, there can appear to be a tension between what we know about the highly constructive nature of remembering, whe…Read more
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257Eliminating episodic memory?Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. forthcoming.In Tulving’s initial characterization, episodic memory was one of multiple memory systems. It was postulated, in pursuit of explanatory depth, as displaying proprietary operations, representations, and substrates such as to explain a range of cognitive, behavioural, and experiential phenomena. Yet the subsequent development of this research program has, paradoxically, introduced surprising doubts about the nature, and indeed existence, of episodic memory. On dominant versions of the ‘common syst…Read more
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2855DreamingIn Sarah Robins, John Symons & Paco Calvo (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, Routledge. 2009.As a topic in the philosophy of psychology, dreaming is a fascinating, diverse, and severely underdeveloped area of study. The topic excites intense public interest in its own right, while also challenging our confidence that we know what the words “conscious” and “consciousness” mean. So dreaming should be at the forefront of our interdisciplinary investigations: theories of mind which fail to address the topic are incomplete. This chapter illustrates the tight links between conceptual and empi…Read more
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113PerspectiveThe Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies. 2023.The imagery we adopt when recalling the personal past may involve different perspectives. In many cases, we remember the past event from our original point of view. In some cases, however, we remember the past event from an external “observer” perspective and view ourselves in the remembered scene. Are such observer perspective images genuine memories? Are they accurate representations of the personal past? This chapter focuses on such observer perspectives in memory, and outlines and examines p…Read more
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137Affective, cognitive, and ecological components of joint expertise in collaborative embodied skillsIn Mirko Farina, Andrea Lavazza & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Expertise: Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2024.To better understand the nature of joint expertise and its underlying processes, we need not only analyses of the general conditions for skilled group action, but also descriptive accounts of the features and dimensions that vary across distinct performances and contexts, such as sport and the arts. And in addition to positioning our accounts against current models of individual skill, we need concepts and lessons from work on collaborative processes in other cognitive domains. This paper examin…Read more
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14Collaborative 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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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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123Contamination or natural variation?Jarmac: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 9 (1): 108-117. 2020.
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112Movements, memory, and mixture: Aristotle, confusion, and the historicity of memoryIn Jacob Fink & S. Mousavian (eds.), The Internal Senses in the Aristotelian Tradition, Springer. pp. 137-155. 2020.
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229Place and memory: history, cognition, phenomenologyIn Mary Floyd-Wilson & Garrett A. Sullivan (eds.), Geographies of Embodiment in Early Modern England, Oxford University Press. pp. 113-133. 2020.
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217Embodied experience in the cognitive ecologies of skilled performanceIn Ellen Fridland & Carlotta Pavese (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Skill and Expertise, Routledge. pp. 194-205. 2020.
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136Personal memory, the scaffolded mind, and cognitive change in the NeolithicIn Ian Hodder (ed.), Consciousness, Creativity and Self at the Dawn of Settled Life, Cambridge University Press. pp. 209-229. 2020.
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198Recalling autobiographical memories with others can influence the quality of recall, but little is known about how features of the group influence memory outcomes. In two studies, we examined how the products and processes of autobiographical recall depend on individual vs. collaborative remembering and the relationship between group members. In both studies, dyads of strangers, friends, and siblings recalled autobiographical events individually (elicitation), then either collaboratively or indi…Read more
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247Between the crowd and the band: performance experience, creative practice, and wellbeing for professional touring musiciansInternational Journal of Wellbeing 10 (5): 5-26. 2020.In some musical genres, professional performers play live shows many times a week. Arduous touring schedules bring encounters with wildly diverse audiences across many different performance ecologies. We investigate the kinds of creativity involved in such repeated live performance, kinds of creativity that are quite unlike songwriting and recording, and examine the central factors that influence musicians’ wellbeing over the course of a tour. The perspective of the professional musician has bee…Read more
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20887Movement and musical performanceIn William Forde Thompson & Kirk N. Olsen (eds.), The Science and Psychology of Music: from Beethoven at the office to Beyoncé at the gym, Greenwood. pp. 269-273. 2021.
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164'Yes, and ...': having it all in improvisation studiesIn J. McGuirk, S. Ravn & S. Høffding (eds.), Improvisation: The Competence(s) of Not Being in Control, Routledge. pp. 200-209. 2021.As one of the first readers of this fine collection of chapters in improvisation studies, I’ve been interactively constructing my experiences and interpretations of the chapters as I go along. Engaged reading – like all our characteristic activities – has a substantial improvisatory dimension. Readers are neither passively downloading data transmitted fully formed from the contributors’ minds nor making up whatever we like, projecting our own views onto a blank slate of a book. In forging and sh…Read more
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196Synchronous vs non-synchronous imitation: using dance to explore interpersonal coordination during observational learningHuman Movement Science 102776 (102776). 2021.Observational learning can enhance the acquisition and performance quality of complex motor skills. While an extensive body of research has focused on the benefits of synchronous (i.e., concurrent physical practice) and non-synchronous (i.e., delayed physical practice) observational learning strategies, the question remains as to whether these approaches differentially influence performance outcomes. Accordingly, we investigate the differential outcomes of synchronous and non-synchronous observa…Read more
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234Reframing the director: distributed creativity in film-making practiceIn Ted Nannicelli & Mette Hjort (eds.), A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value, Wiley Blackwel. pp. 86-105. 2022.Filmmaking is one of the most complexly layered forms of artistic production. It is a deeply interactive process, socially, culturally, and technologically. Yet the bulk of popular and academic discussion of filmmaking continues to attribute creative authorship of films to directors. Texts refer to “a Scorsese film,” not a film by “Scorsese et al.” We argue that this kind of attribution of sole creative responsibility to film directors is a misapprehension of filmmaking processes, based in part …Read more
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130Preserving without conserving: memoryscopes and historically burdened heritageAdaptive Behavior 30 (6): 555-559. 2022.Rather than conserving or ignoring historically burdened heritage, RAAAF intervene. Their responses are striking, sometimes dramatic or destructive. Prompted by Rietveld’s discussion of the Luftschloss project, I compare some other places with difficult pasts which engage our embodied and sensory responses, without such active redirection or disruption. Ross Gibson’s concept of a ‘memoryscope’ helps us identify distinct but complementary ways of focussing the forces of the past. Emotions and ima…Read more
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146Preface and Acknowledgements: collaborative embodied performanceIn Kath Bicknell & John Sutton (eds.), Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill, Methuen Drama. 2022.
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198Introduction: the situated intelligence of collaborative skillsIn Kath Bicknell & John Sutton (eds.), Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill, Methuen Drama. pp. 1-18. 2022.
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114Sociotechnical dilemmas in healthcare: a cognitive ethnographyIn Davide Secchi, Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen & Stephen J. Cowley (eds.), Organisational Cognition: the theory of social organizing, Routledge. pp. 213-238. 2022.
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205Distributed traces and the causal theory of constructive memoryIn John Sutton & Gerard O'Brien (eds.), Current Controversies in the Philosophy of Memory, Routledge. pp. 82-104. 2023.
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113Late Pleistocene skill domains: commentary on Sterelny & HiscockCurrent Anthropology. forthcoming.Sterelny and Hiscock (S&H) argue against the centrality of high-fidelity copying in cumulative culture. I address one key strand of their case, the decoupling of expertise from precise imitation. This advances understanding of hominin skill acquisition, and underlines a puzzle about domain-specificity.
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289Maurice Halbwachs on dreams and memoryIn Daniel Gregory & Kourken Michaelian (eds.), Dreaming and Memory, Springer. forthcoming.In the first two chapters of his 1925 book Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire (The Social Frameworks of Memory), the French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) develops a sustained comparison between remembering and dreaming. Engaging in detail with large bodies of contemporary research in psychology, physiology, philosophy, and linguistics, he aims to combat what he calls the ‘surprising’ tendency of ‘psychological treatises that deal with memory’ to treat each of us as ‘an isolated being’ …Read more
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157Perspective (review)In Lucas Bietti & Pogacar Martin (eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies, Palgrave Macmillan. 2023.The imagery we adopt when recalling the personal past may involve different perspectives. In many cases, we remember the past event from our original point of view. In some cases, however, we remember the past event from an external “observer” perspective and view ourselves in the remembered scene. Are such observer perspective images genuine memories? Are they accurate representations of the personal past? This chapter focuses on such observer perspectives in memory, and outlines and examines p…Read more
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169Individuals for Anti-IndividualistsConstructivist Foundations 18 (3): 374-376. 2023.Open peer commentary on the article “Beyond Individual-Centred 4E Cognition: Systems Biology and Sympoiesis” by Mads Julian Dengsø & Michael David Kirchhoff. Abstract: Dengsø and Kirchhoff offer a revised dynamic conception of the individual in place of the bounded cognitive agent of classical cognitive science. However, this may not be sufficiently robust to ground the enquiries into individual and cultural differences that remain vital in the proposed “deterritorialized cognitive science.” It …Read more
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19Sociocultural 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.