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2780Implications of Action-Oriented Paradigm Shifts in Cognitive ScienceIn Andreas K. Engel, Karl J. Friston & Danica Kragic (eds.), The Pragmatic Turn: Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science, Mit Press. pp. 333-356. 2016.An action-oriented perspective changes the role of an individual from a passive observer to an actively engaged agent interacting in a closed loop with the world as well as with others. Cognition exists to serve action within a landscape that contains both. This chapter surveys this landscape and addresses the status of the pragmatic turn. Its potential influence on science and the study of cognition are considered (including perception, social cognition, social interaction, sensorimotor entrain…Read more
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1Subjekte sind Artefakte. Aber das macht nichtsIn Detlev Ganten, Volker Gerhardt & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.), Funktionen des Bewusstseins, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 63-82. 2008.
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Action simulation: Time Course and Representational MechanismsIn Ezequiel Morsella & T. Andrew Poehlman (eds.), Consciousness and action control, Frontiers Media Sa. 2014.
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Action-Sentence Compatibility: The Role of Action Effects and TimingIn Ezequiel Morsella & T. Andrew Poehlman (eds.), Consciousness and action control, Frontiers Media Sa. 2014.
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15Disorders of Volition (edited book)Bradford Books. 2009.Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists examine the will and its pathologies from theoretical and empirical perspectives, offering a conceptual overview and discussing schizophrenia, depression, prefrontal lobe damage, and substance abuse as disorders of volition. Science tries to understand human action from two perspectives, the cognitive and the volitional. The volitional approach, in contrast to the more dominant "outside-in" studies of cognition, looks at actions fro…Read more
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7Of minds and mirrorsInteraction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies / Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies 6 (1): 1-19. 2005.
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3The understanding of own and others’ actions during infancyInteraction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies / Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies 6 (3): 429-445. 2005.Developmental psychologists assume that infants understand other persons’ actions after and because they understand their own. However, there is another possibility as well, namely that infants come to understand their own actions after and because they understand other persons’ actions. We reviewed infant research on the influence of perceived actions on self-performed actions as well as the reverse. Furthermore, we investigated the interplay between both aspects of action understanding by mean…Read more
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41Import Theory: The Social Making of ConsciousnessJournal of Consciousness Studies 26 (3-4): 112-130. 2019.This paper outlines a representational framework for an import theory of selfhood and consciousness. Import theory posits that selfhood and consciousness are first perceived and understood in others and then imported from others to self. The theory raises three major claims: conscious awareness builds on self-representation; selfhood is a social, not a natural, kind; selfhood is imported from others to self. The paper focuses on the third claim and discusses mechanisms for import from others to …Read more
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6Task implementation and top-down control in continuous searchBehavioral and Brain Sciences 40. 2017.
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2Generality and perceptual constraints in understanding goal-directed actions in young infantsConsciousness and Cognition 12 (4): 752-769. 2003.
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74Emerging selves: Representational foundations of subjectivityConsciousness and Cognition 12 (4): 515-528. 2003.A hypothetical evolutionary scenario is offered meant to account for the emergence of mental selves. According to the scenario, mental selves are constructed to solve a source-attribution problem. They emerge when internally generated mental contents are treated like messages arising from external personal sources. As a result, mental contents becomes attributed to the self as an internal personal source. According to this view, subjectivity is construed outward-in, that is, one's own mental sel…Read more
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What gets synchronized with what in sensorimotor synchronizationBulletin of the Psychonomic Society 30 (6): 474-474. 1992.
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11Fremde BilderIn Franz Engel, Johanna Schiffler & Marion Lauschke (eds.), Ikonische Formprozesse: Zur Philosophie des Unbestimmten in Bildern, De Gruyter. pp. 101-122. 2017.
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63What is Shared in Joint Action? Issues of Co-representation, Response Conflict, and Agent IdentificationReview of Philosophy and Psychology 2 (2): 147-172. 2011.When sharing a task with another person that requires turn taking, as in doubles games of table tennis, performance on the shared task is similar to performing the whole task alone. This has been taken to indicate that humans co-represent their partner’s task share, as if it were their own. Task co-representation allows prediction of the other’s responses when it is the other’s turn, and leads to response conflict in joint interference tasks. However, data from our lab cast doubt on the view tha…Read more
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29Commentary on Zenon W. Pylyshyn (2002). Mental imagery? In search of a theory. BBS 25 (2): 157–182Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 4. 2004.
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Mirrors for embodied communicationIn Ipke Wachsmuth, Manuela Lenzen & Günther Knoblich (eds.), Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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40Common Mechanisms in Perception and Action: Attention and Performance Volume Xix (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2002.The latest volume in the critically acclaimed and highly cited Attention and Performance series presents state of the art research from leading scientists in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience describing the approaches being taken to understanding the mechanisms that allow us to negotiate and respond to the world around us.
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45When do we simulate non-human agents? Dissociating communicative and non-communicative actionsCognition 115 (3): 426-434. 2010.
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34Effector-specific motor interference in action simulationIn S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society. pp. 2698--2703. 2010.
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14The understanding of own and others' actions during infancy:“You-like-Me” or “Me-like-You”?Interaction Studies 6 (3): 429-445. 2005.
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9Of minds and mirrors: An introduction to the social making of mindsInteraction Studies 6 (1): 1-19. 2005.
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10Explaining consciousness: From correlations to foundationsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 39. 2016.
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25Action Science: Foundations of an Emerging Discipline (edited book)MIT Press. 2013.An emerging discipline depends on a rich and multifaceted supply of theoretical and methodological approaches. The diversity of perspectives offered in this book will serve as a guide for future explorations in action science.