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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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122Codes and their vicissitudesBehavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (5): 910-926. 2001.First, we discuss issues raised with respect to the Theory of Event Coding (TEC)'s scope, that is, its limitations and possible extensions. Then, we address the issue of specificity, that is, the widespread concern that TEC is too unspecified and, therefore, too vague in a number of important respects. Finally, we elaborate on our views about TEC's relations to other important frameworks and approaches in the field like stages models, ecological approaches, and the two-visual-pathways model. Foo…Read more
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104The theory of event coding (TEC): A framework for perception and action planningBehavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (5): 849-878. 2001.Traditional approaches to human information processing tend to deal with perception and action planning in isolation, so that an adequate account of the perception-action interface is still missing. On the perceptual side, the dominant cognitive view largely underestimates, and thus fails to account for, the impact of action-related processes on both the processing of perceptual information and on perceptual learning. On the action side, most approaches conceive of action planning as a mere cont…Read more
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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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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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51PoliawaC: design and evaluation of an awareness-enhanced groupware client (review)AI and Society 14 (1): 31-47. 2000.waC provides a variety of different graphical notification mechanisms which can be coupled to specific working situations using the AREA model. We also report on the evaluation of the system under real-life conditions in a German federal ministry
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48The early origins of goal attribution in infancyConsciousness and Cognition 12 (4): 752-769. 2003.We contrast two positions concerning the initial domain of actions that infants interpret as goal-directed. The 'narrow scope' view holds that goal-attribution in 6- and 9-month-olds is restricted to highly familiar actions (such as grasping) (). The cue-based approach of the infant's 'teleological stance' (), however, predicts that if the cues of equifinal variation of action and a salient action effect are present, young infants can attribute goals to a 'wide scope' of entities including unfam…Read more
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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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42Dynamic Simulation and Static Matching for Action Prediction: Evidence From Body Part PrimingCognitive Science 37 (5): 936-952. 2013.Accurately predicting other people's actions may involve two processes: internal real-time simulation (dynamic updating) and matching recently perceived action images (static matching). Using a priming of body parts, this study aimed to differentiate the two processes. Specifically, participants played a motion-controlled video game with either their arms or legs. They then observed arm movements of a point-light actor, which were briefly occluded from view, followed by a static test pose. Parti…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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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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36Modeling self on others: An import theory of subjectivity and selfhoodConsciousness and Cognition 49 347-362. 2017.
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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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31The explanatory role of consciousness in actionIn Sabine Maasen, Wolfgang Prinz & Gerhard Roth (eds.), Voluntary action: brains, minds, and sociality, Oxford University Press. pp. 188--201. 2003.
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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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28A psychophysical approach to action timingIn Christian Kaernbach, Erich Schroger & Hermann Müller (eds.), Psychophysics Beyond Sensation: Laws and Invariants of Human Cognition, Psychology Press. pp. 117--136. 2004.
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27Cognition and actionIn Ezequiel Morsella, John A. Bargh & Peter M. Gollwitzer (eds.), Oxford handbook of human action, Oxford University Press. pp. 2. 2008.
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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.
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23Explaining voluntary action: The role of mental contentIn P. Machamer & M. Carrier (eds.), Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind, Pittsburgh University Press and Universtaetsverlag Konstanz. pp. 153--175. 1997.
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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