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2737Implications 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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14Disorders 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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6Of 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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36Import 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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4Task 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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9Fremde 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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44The 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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27A 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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35Modeling self on others: An import theory of subjectivity and selfhoodConsciousness and Cognition 49 347-362. 2017.
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12Voluntary action: brains, minds, and sociality (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2003.We all know what a voluntary action is - we all think we know when an action is voluntary, and when it is not. Yet, performing and action and defining it are different matters. What counts as an action? When does it begin? Does the conscious desire to perform an action always precede the act? If not, is it really a voluntary action? This is a debate that crosses the boundaries of Philosophy, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Social Science. This book brings together some to the leading thinkers from…Read more
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106Codes 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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6Distributed document contexts in cooperation systemsIn T. R. Roth-Berghofer D. C. Richardson B. Kokinov (ed.), Modeling and Using Context, Springer. pp. 507--516. 2007.
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2Free will as a social institutionIn Susan Pockett, William P. Banks & Shaun Gallagher (eds.), Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?, Mit Press. pp. 257-276. 2006.
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24Cognition and actionIn Ezequiel Morsella, John A. Bargh & Peter M. Gollwitzer (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Human Action, Oxford University Press. pp. 2. 2009.