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137Déjà vu may be illusory gist identificationBehavioral and Brain Sciences 46. 2023.In déjà vu, a novel experience feels strangely familiar. Here we propose that this phenomenology is best seen as consisting in an illusory feeling of identification of the gist of the current scene or event, rather than in the intensity of the fluency-based, metacognitive feeling of familiarity.
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Memory, Time, and Temporal ExperienceDissertation, Graduate School of the University of Maryland. 2023.
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656What is so special about episodic memory: lessons from the system-experience distinctionSynthese 200 (1): 1-26. 2022.Compared to other forms of memory, episodic memory is commonly viewed as special for being distinctively metarepresentational and, relatedly, uniquely human. There is an inherent ambiguity in these conceptions, however, because “episodic memory” has two closely connected yet subtly distinct uses, one designating the recollective experience and the other designating the underlying neurocognitive system. Since experience and system sit at different levels of theorizing, their disentanglement is no…Read more
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199No doing without timeBehavioral and Brain Sciences 42. 2019.Hoerl & McCormack claim that animals don't represent time. Because this makes a mystery of established findings in comparative psychology, there had better be some important payoff. The main one they mention is that it explains a clash of intuition about the reality of time's passage. But any theory that recognizes the representational requirements of agency can do likewise.
University of Maryland, College Park
PhD, 2023
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics |
Areas of Interest
Explanation in Cognitive Science |
Memory |
Time |