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39A social inference model of idealization and devaluationPsychological Review 131 (3): 749-780. 2024.
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1Relationships between cognitive biases, decision-making, and delusionsScientific Reports 13 (1): 9485. 2023.Multiple measures of decision-making under uncertainty (e.g. jumping to conclusions (JTC), bias against disconfirmatory evidence (BADE), win-switch behavior, random exploration) have been associated with delusional thinking in independent studies. Yet, it is unknown whether these variables explain shared or unique variance in delusional thinking, and whether these relationships are specific to paranoia or delusional ideation more broadly. Additionally, the underlying computational mechanisms req…Read more
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Reasoning biases, behavior, and computation in delusions: shared and unique variancePsyArXiv. forthcoming.
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45From Generative Models to Generative Passages: A Computational Approach to (Neuro) PhenomenologyReview of Philosophy and Psychology 13 (4): 829-857. 2022.This paper presents a version of neurophenomenology based on generative modelling techniques developed in computational neuroscience and biology. Our approach can be described as _computational phenomenology_ because it applies methods originally developed in computational modelling to provide a formal model of the descriptions of lived experience in the phenomenological tradition of philosophy (e.g., the work of Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, etc.). The first section presents a brief re…Read more
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20Simulating Emotions: An Active Inference Model of Emotional State Inference and Emotion Concept LearningFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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51Do Brains Have an Arrow of Time?Philosophy of Science 81 (2): 265-275. 2014.There is a persisting tension that exists between the block universe conception of time in modern physics and philosophy and the conception of time that stems naturally from experience, and entropic asymmetries have been proposed to explain this tension. This article argues that as biochemical processes in the brain depend upon spontaneous entropy increases in the forward-time direction, this should provide an entropic basis for the unidirectionality of psychological processes. As this view does…Read more
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16Role of medial prefrontal cortex in representing one’s own subjective emotional responses: A preliminary studyConsciousness and Cognition 29 117-130. 2014.
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27Greater cortical thickness within the limbic visceromotor network predicts higher levels of trait emotional awarenessConsciousness and Cognition 57 54-61. 2018.
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72The relationship between consciousness, understanding, and rationalityPhilosophical Psychology 29 (7): 943-957. 2016.The purpose of the present article is to explore the relationship between consciousness and understanding. To do so, I first briefly review recent work on the nature of both understanding and consciousness within philosophy and psychology. Building off of this work, I then defend the thesis that if one is conscious of a given content then one also understands that content. I argue that this conclusion can be drawn from the fact that understanding is associated with rational intention formation a…Read more
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19Unwanted reminders: The effects of emotional memory suppression on subsequent neuro-cognitive processingConsciousness and Cognition 44 103-113. 2016.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |