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    Synchronous vs non-synchronous imitation: using dance to explore interpersonal coordination during observational learning
    with Cassandra Crone, Lilian Rigoli, Gaurav Patil, Sarah Pini, John Sutton, and Rachel Kallen
    Human 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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    Inner speech deficits in people with aphasia
    with Peter Langland-Hassan, Frank R. Faries, and Aimee Dietz
    Frontiers in Psychology 6 1-10. 2015.
    Despite the ubiquity of inner speech in our mental lives, methods for objectively assessing inner speech capacities remain underdeveloped. The most common means of assessing inner speech is to present participants with tasks requiring them to silently judge whether two words rhyme. We developed a version of this task to assess the inner speech of a population of patients with aphasia and corresponding language production deficits. As expected, patients’ performance on the silent rhyming task …Read more
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    Understanding everyday behavior relies heavily upon understanding our ability to improvise, how we are able to continuously anticipate and adapt in order to coordinate with our environment and others. Here we consider the ability of musicians to improvise, where they must spontaneously coordinate their actions with co-performers in order to produce novel musical expressions. Investigations of this behavior have traditionally focused on describing the organization of cognitive structures. The foc…Read more
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    Conversation dynamics in a multiplayer video game with knowledge asymmetry
    with James Simpson, Patrick Nalepka, Rachel W. Kallen, Mark Dras, Erik D. Reichle, Simon G. Hosking, Christopher Best, and Deborah Richards
    Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
    Despite the challenges associated with virtually mediated communication, remote collaboration is a defining characteristic of online multiplayer gaming communities. Inspired by the teamwork exhibited by players in first-person shooter games, this study investigated the verbal and behavioral coordination of four-player teams playing a cooperative online video game. The game, Desert Herding, involved teams consisting of three ground players and one drone operator tasked to locate, corral, and cont…Read more
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    Assessing Team Effectiveness by How Players Structure Their Search in a First‐Person Multiplayer Video Game
    with Patrick Nalepka, Matthew Prants, Hamish Stening, James Simpson, Rachel W. Kallen, Mark Dras, Erik D. Reichle, Simon G. Hosking, and Christopher Best
    Cognitive Science 46 (10). 2022.
    Cognitive Science, Volume 46, Issue 10, October 2022.
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    Educational Borderlands
    Philosophy of Education 77 (2): 86-94. 2021.
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    In recent years, language has been shown to play a number of important cognitive roles over and above the communication of thoughts. One hypothesis gaining support is that language facilitates thought about abstract categories, such as democracy or prediction. To test this proposal, a novel set of semantic memory task trials, designed for assessing abstract thought non-linguistically, were normed for levels of abstractness. The trials were rated as more or less abstract to the degree that ans…Read more
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    Effects of Agent-Environment Symmetry on the Coordination Dynamics of Triadic Jumping
    with Akifumi Kijima, Hiroyuki Shima, Motoki Okumura, and Yuji Yamamoto
    Frontiers in Psychology 8. 2017.
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    Relational Recognition, Educational Liminality, and Teacher–Student Relationships
    Studies in Philosophy and Education 38 (5): 453-466. 2019.
    Theories about relationships impact the ways in which we imagine that teachers and students can or should interact. These theories often involve either individualistic or relational assumptions. A contrast has been made between theories that assume that the individual is primary, and the relationship secondary, and those that assume that the relationship is primary and the individual secondary. Roughly mapping on to these assumptions are the implications that educational relationships either oug…Read more
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    A Hierarchical Behavioral Dynamic Approach for Naturally Adaptive Human-Agent Pick-and-Place Interactions
    with Maurice Lamb, Patrick Nalepka, Rachel W. Kallen, Tamara Lorenz, Steven J. Harrison, and Ali A. Minai
    Complexity 2019 1-16. 2019.
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    To Pass or Not to Pass: Modeling the Movement and Affordance Dynamics of a Pick and Place Task
    with Maurice Lamb, Rachel W. Kallen, Steven J. Harrison, Mario Di Bernardo, and Ali Minai
    Frontiers in Psychology 8. 2017.
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    Creating Time: Social Collaboration in Music Improvisation
    with Ashley E. Walton, Auriel Washburn, Peter Langland-Hassan, Anthony Chemero, and Heidi Kloos
    Topics in Cognitive Science 10 (1): 95-119. 2018.
    Musical improvisation is a natural case of human pattern formation, and Walton and colleagues investigate the way that different contextual constraints affect patterns of improvisation and their aesthetic quality. The authors find that coordination patterns are more diversified between two musicians when the musical space in which to improvise is relatively more constrained. They also find that listeners experience more diversified, complementary patterns between musicians as more enjoyable and …Read more
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    Social Connection Through Joint Action and Interpersonal Coordination
    with Kerry L. Marsh and R. C. Schmidt
    Topics in Cognitive Science 1 (2): 320-339. 2009.
    The pull to coordinate with other individuals is fundamental, serving as the basis for our social connectedness to others. Discussed is a dynamical and ecological perspective to joint action, an approach that embeds the individual’s mind in a body and the body in a niche, a physical and social environment. Research on uninstructed coordination of simple incidental rhythmic movement, along with research on goal‐directed, embodied cooperation, is reviewed. Finally, recent research is discussed tha…Read more
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    A 'narrowing of inquiry' in American moral psychology and education
    with Brent D. Slife
    Journal of Moral Education 42 (2): 193-208. 2013.
    We explore the possibility that a priori philosophical commitments continue to result in a narrowing of inquiry in moral psychology and education where theistic worldviews are concerned. Drawing from the theories of Edward L. Thorndike and John Dewey, we examine naturalistic philosophical commitments that influenced the study of moral psychology and moral education in the USA. We then address the question of whether these foundational naturalistic commitments can be rendered as compatible with t…Read more
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    The event-code: Not the solution to a problem, but a problem to be solved
    with Claire F. Michaels
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (5): 901-902. 2001.
    We commend the argument that perception and action are tightly coupled. We claim that the argument is not new, that uniting stimulus and response codes is not a problem for a cognitive system, only for psychologists who assume them, and that the Theory of Event Coding (TEC)'s event-codes are arbitrary and ungrounded. Affordances and information offer the common basis for perception-action (and even for event-codes).
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    Eroding the Boundaries of Cognition: Implications of Embodiment 1
    Topics in Cognitive Science 4 (4): 717-730. 2012.
    To accept that cognition is embodied is to question many of the beliefs traditionally held by cognitive scientists. One key question regards the localization of cognitive faculties. Here we argue that for cognition to be embodied and sometimes embedded, means that the cognitive faculty cannot be localized in a brain area alone. We review recent research on neural reuse, the 1/f structure of human activity, tool use, group cognition, and social coordination dynamics that we believe demonstrates h…Read more