Macquarie University
Cognitive Science
PhD, 2012
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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    Bruineberg and colleagues highlight work using Markov blankets to demarcate the bounds of the mind. This echoes earlier attempts to demarcate the bounds of the mind from a dynamical systems perspective. Advocates of mechanistic explanation have challenged the dynamical approach to independently motivate the application of the formalism, a challenge that Markov blanket theorists must also meet.
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    Statistical Inference and the Replication Crisis
    with Dénes Szűcs
    Review of Philosophy and Psychology 12 (1): 121-147. 2018.
    The replication crisis has prompted many to call for statistical reform within the psychological sciences. Here we examine issues within Frequentist statistics that may have led to the replication crisis, and we examine the alternative—Bayesian statistics—that many have suggested as a replacement. The Frequentist approach and the Bayesian approach offer radically different perspectives on evidence and inference with the Frequentist approach prioritising error control and the Bayesian approach of…Read more
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    We argue that one important aspect of the “cognitive neuroscience revolution” identified by Boone and Piccinini :1509–1534. doi: 10.1007/s11229-015-0783-4, 2015) is a dramatic shift away from thinking of cognitive representations as arbitrary symbols towards thinking of them as icons that replicate structural characteristics of their targets. We argue that this shift has been driven both “from below” and “from above”—that is, from a greater appreciation of what mechanistic explanation of informa…Read more
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    Awareness of Rhythm Patterns in Speech and Music in Children with Specific Language Impairments
    with Ruth Cumming, Angela Wilson, Victoria Leong, and Usha Goswami
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
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    Music, action, and affect
    with William Forde Thompson
    In Tom Cochrane, Bernardino Fantini & Klaus R. Scherer (eds.), The Emotional Power of Music: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Musical Arousal, Expression, and Social Control, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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    Motor experience interacts with effector information during action prediction
    with William Thompson and John Sutton
    Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 2082-2087. 2013.
    Recent theory suggests that action prediction relies of a motor emulation mechanism that works by mapping observed actions onto the observer action system so that predictions can be generated using that same predictive mechanisms that underlie action control. This suggests that action prediction may be more accurate when there is a more direct mapping between the stimulus and the observer. We tested this hypothesis by comparing prediction accuracy for two stimulus types. A mannequin stimulus wh…Read more
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    Action synchronization with biological motion
    with William F. Thompson and John Sutton
    The ability to predict the actions of other agents is vital for joint action tasks. Recent theory suggests that action prediction relies on an emulator system that permits observers to use information about their own motor dynamics to predict the actions of other agents. If this is the case, then predictions for self-generated actions should be more accurate than predictions for other-generated actions. We tested this hypothesis by employing a self/other synchronization paradigm where prediction…Read more