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COGSCI
2004
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Soft constraints in interactive behavior: the case of ignoring perfect knowledge in-the-world for imperfect knowledge in-the-hea
Constraints and dependencies among the elements of embodied cognition form patterns or microstrategies of interactive behavior. Hard constraints determine which microstrategies ar...
Wayne D. Gray, Wai-Tat Fu
COGSCI
2004
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Characterizing perceptual learning with external noise
Performance in perceptual tasks often improves with practice. This effect is known as `perceptual learning,' and it has been the source of a great deal of interest and debate...
Jason M. Gold, Allison B. Sekuler, Partrick J. Ben...
COGSCI
2004
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Mapping relational structure in spatial reasoning
Three experiments investigated whether the similarity of relational structures influences the interpretation of spatial representations. Adults were shown diagrams of hand gesture...
Merideth Gattis
COGSCI
2004
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Restricting grammatical complexity
of natural language syntax often characterize grammatical knowledge as a form of abstract computation. This paper argues that such a characterization is correct, and that fundamen...
Robert Frank
COGSCI
2004
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Disfluencies, language comprehension, and Tree Adjoining Grammars
Disfluencies include editing terms such as uh and um as well as repeats and revisions. Little is known about how disfluencies are processed, and there has been next to no research...
Fernanda Ferreira, Ellen F. Lau, Karl G. D. Bailey
COGSCI
2004
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A rhythm recognition computer program to advocate interactivist perception
This paper advocates the main ideas of the interactive model of representation of Mark Bickhard and the assimilation/accommodation framework of Jean Piaget, through a rhythm recog...
Jean-Christophe Buisson
COGSCI
2004
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Mapping visual attention with change blindness: new directions for a new method
Change blindness provides a new technique for mapping visual attention with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. Change blindness can occur when a brief full-field blank...
Peter U. Tse
COGSCI
2004
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Reinstatement, floating conclusions, and the credulity of Mental Model reasoning
Johnson-Laird and coworkers' Mental Model theory of propositional reasoning is shown to be somewhere in between what logicians have defined as "credulous" and "...
Jean-François Bonnefon
COGSCI
2004
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On the spontaneous discovery of a mathematical relation during problem solving
People spontaneously discover new representations during problem solving. Discovery of a mathematical representation is of special interest, because it shows that the underlying s...
James A. Dixon, Ashley S. Bangert