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19Phonological reduction, assimilation, intra-word information structure, and the evolution of the lexicon of English: Why fast speech isn't confusingIn Garrison W. Cottrell (ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of The Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 233. 1996.
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12A modern materialist approach to abstraction, concreteness, and explanation in cognitionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 43. 2020.Although endorsing the authors’ concentration on the issue of abstraction, I critique the philosophical nature of their abstract–concrete dimension, their view of the brain–world barrier, and their implicit positivist one-way hierarchy that has abstraction as the goal.
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33Mirror Neurons, Prediction and Hemispheric Coordination: The Prioritizing of Intersubjectivity Over ‘Intrasubjectivity’Axiomathes 29 (2): 139-153. 2019.We observe that approaches to intersubjectivity, involving mirror neurons and involving emulation and prediction, have eclipsed discussion of those same mechanisms for achieving coordination between the two hemispheres of the human brain. We explore some of the implications of the suggestion that the mutual modelling of the two situated hemispheres is a productive place to start in understanding the phylogenetic and ontogenetic development of cognition and of intersubjectivity.
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26An Anatomically Constrained, Stochastic Model of Eye Movement Control in ReadingPsychological Review 112 (4): 814-840. 2005.
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76Validating a standardised test battery for synesthesia: Does the Synesthesia Battery reliably detect synesthesia?Consciousness and Cognition 33 375-385. 2015.
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13Hemispheric Asymmetries in Cognitive Modeling: Connectionist Modeling of Unilateral Visual NeglectPsychological Review 111 (2): 283-308. 2004.
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44Interaction, function words, and the Wider goals of speech perceptionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (3): 346-346. 2000.We urge caution in generalising from content words to function words, in which lexical-to-phonemic feedback might be more likely. Speech perception involves more than word recognition; feedback might be outside the narrow logic of word identification but still be present for other purposes. Finally, we raise the issue of evidence from imaging studies of auditory hallucination.
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35Bihemispheric representation, foveal splitting, and visual word recognitionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (2): 300-301. 1999.Pulvermüller's account of lexical representation has implications for visual word recognition, given the claim we make that a foveally presented word is precisely split and contralaterally projected to the two hemispheres, and that this splitting conditions the whole process of visual word recognition. This elaboration of Pulvermüller's account raises issues of hemispheric differences and collaboration.
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21Reading and the split foveaBehavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (4): 503-503. 2003.We argue that models of reading should be based on anatomical reality, namely, the fact that both eyes are used in reading; and the observation that the human fovea is precisely vertically split, and projects each half of a fixated word to the contralateral hemisphere.
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20Eye-fixation behavior, lexical storage, and visual word recognition in a split processing modelPsychological Review 107 (4): 824-851. 2000.
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83The Concrete Universal and Cognitive ScienceAxiomathes 24 (1): 63-80. 2014.Cognitive science depends on abstractions made from the complex reality of human behaviour. Cognitive scientists typically wish the abstractions in their theories to be universals, but seldom attend to the ontology of universals. Two sorts of universal, resulting from Galilean abstraction and materialist abstraction respectively, are available in the philosophical literature: the abstract universal—the one-over-many universal—is the universal conventionally employed by cognitive scientists; in c…Read more
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61Synaesthesia in Chinese characters: The role of radical function and positionConsciousness and Cognition 24 38-48. 2014.Grapheme-colour synaesthetes experience unusual colour percepts when they encounter letters and/or digits. Studies of English-speaking grapheme-colour synaesthetes have shown that synaesthetic colours are sometimes triggered by rule-based linguistic mechanisms . In contrast, little is known about synaesthesia in logographic languages such as Chinese. The current study shows the mechanisms by which synaesthetic speakers of Chinese colour their language. One hypothesis is that Chinese characters m…Read more
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1Eye movements and visual word recogntionIn Gareth Gaskell (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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63Synaesthesia in a logographic language: The colouring of Chinese characters and Pinyin/Bopomo spellingsConsciousness and Cognition 20 (4): 1376-1392. 2011.Studies of linguistic synaesthesias in English have shown a range of fine-grained language mechanisms governing the associations between colours on the one hand, and graphemes, phonemes and words on the other. However, virtually nothing is known about how synaesthetic colouring might operate in non-alphabetic systems. The current study shows how synaesthetic speakers of Mandarin Chinese come to colour the logographic units of their language. Both native and non-native Chinese speakers experience…Read more
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