Department of Cognitive Science
Thematic Index
- Keynotes
- Levels of Explanation in Cognitive Science
- Agency and Control
- Attention and Vision
- Delusions and Disorders
- Perception: Faces, Movement, and Emotion
- Belief and Cognition
- Computational Modelling
- Logic and Cognition
- Memory
- Dance
- Skills and Expertise
- Philosophy, Culture, and History
- Language
Keynotes
Crain: What are core linguistic properties?Hohwy: The hypothesis testing brain: Some philosophical applications
Tversky: Spaces of Thought
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Levels of Explanation in Cognitive Science
Colling & Roberts: Cognitive psychology does not reduce to neuroscienceColtheart: Levels of explanation in cognitive science
Murphy: Cognitive science without cognitive psychology
Opie: Levels and explanation
Schier: The explicable emergence of the mind
Williams & Rich: Cognitive neuroscience: Spanning the void between cognitive science and neuroscience
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Agency and Control
Carruthers: A comparison of fortunes: the comparator and multifactorial weighting models of the sense of agencyEjova, Delfabbro & Navarro: The illusion of control: structure, measurement and dependence on reinforcement frequency in the context of a laboratory gambling task
Friedman & Finkbeiner: Temporal dynamics of masked congruence priming: evidence from reaching trajectories
Knox, Andrews, & Hood: Relational processing in children's arithmetic word problem solving
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Attention and Vision
Beanland & Pammer: Gorilla watching: Effects of exposure and expectations on inattentional blindnessFavelle & Palmisano: The utility of different object properties in change detection
Jamadar, Provost, Fulham, Michie, & Karayanidis: Multiple sources underlie ERP indices of task-switching
Karayanidis, Whitson, Michie, & Heathcote: Neural correlates and temporal dynamics of task-switching in normal aging
Livesey & Barrett: Dissociating the effects of automatic facilitation and event expectancy on the control of attention and performance
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Delusions and Disorders
Connors, Barnier, Coltheart, Cox, & Langdon: Impaired face recognition and the mirrored-self misidentification delusion: Recreating the delusion using hypnosisParsell: Williams syndrome: Dissociation and mental structure
Reid, Johnson, Macarthur, Castles, & Hautus: Auditory processing in the dyslexic brain
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Perception: Faces, Movement, and Emotion
Bennetts, Burke, Brooks, & Robins: The use of dynamic cues in self and familiar face recognitionColling, Thompson, & Sutton: Action synchronization with biological motion
Gwinn & Brooks: A face in the crowd: Examining race perception and lightness contrast
Ng, Sowman, Brock, & Johnson: An EEG/MEG study of anticipatory postural adjustment in a bimanual load- lifting task
Zamuner: Perception of other people's emotions
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Belief and Cognition
Kearney & Hayes: As time goes by: Temporal construal moderates the effects of category variability on belief revisionPymont & Smithson: 1 + 1 = 3 : Factors influencing error detection with mathematical and reasoning problems
Stephens, Navarro, Dunn, & Lee: The effect of causal strength on the use of causal and similarity-based information in feature inference
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Computational Modelling
Marstaller, Hintze, & Adami: Measuring representationRevithis, Nelson, & Marcus: A neurocomputational instructional indicator of working memory load in cognitive load theory
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Logic and Cognition
Mortensen: Visual paradox and cognitionNewstead & Franklin: The epistemology of geometry I: The problem of exactness
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Memory
Averell & Heathcote: Posterior distribution analysis of the retention of briefly studied wordsDownham: Episodic memory as enactive know-how: Cognitive, affective, and conative resources of remembered experience
Harbus: Written autobiography as a source of influence on autobiographical memory
Harris, Keil, Sutton, & Barnier: Collaborative remembering: When can remembering with others be beneficial?
Markowitsch: Autobiographical Memory across the life span: Brain imaging and neuropsychology
McIlwain: Fullness of Feeling: reflection, rumination, depression and the specificity of autobiographical memories
Staniloiu, Borsutzky, & Markowitsch: Dissociative memory disorders and immigration
Theiner: Making sense of group cognition: The curious case of transactive memory systems
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Dance
Adams: Choreography on the couch: The role of psychological intervention in the choreographic process of incarnaSchubert, Stevens, & Ferguson: The relationship between lapsing and scaling: Explaining timing variations in a contemporary dance performance
Vincs, Schubert, & Stevens: Effects of observer experience on continuous measures of engagement with a contemporary dance work
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Skills and Expertise
Downey: Cultural variation in elite athletes: Does elite cognitive-perceptual skill always converge?Geeves, McIlwain, Sutton, & Christensen: Expanding expertise: Investigating a musician's experience of music performance
Jeffares: The evolution of technical competence: Strategic and economic thinking
Lehmann, Bolland, Remington, Humphreys, Fothergill, Hasenbosch, & Neal: Evaluation of a model of expert decision making in air traffic control
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Philosophy, Culture, and History
Green: The pleasure and pathology of narrativeIkaheimo: Is 'recognition' in the sense of intrinsic motivational altruism necessary for pre-linguistic communicative pointing?
Keene: Extending the religious mind: Early quakerism and the cognitive science of religion
Wolfe: The social brain: A spinozist reconstruction
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Language
Calacouris & Brock: How does sentence context affect activation of homophone and cohort competitors? Evidence from language-mediated eye movementsKhlentzos: In defence of nativism
Liu: Tuesday, Threesday, Foursday: Chinese names for the days of the week improve Chinese children's temporal reasoning
Ursini: How space gets into language: A novel approach
Ye: Eating and drinking in Mandarin and Shanghainese: A lexical-conceptual analysis
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Further Information
Seminars
- Tuesday 29th May,
Thomas Whitford,
"Distinguishing self from world: implications for schizophrenia"
Who is Visiting
- Dr Zoe Plympton
- Amir Sadeghi
- Dr Petroula (Betty) Mousikou
- Sam Wilkinson
- Dr Carolyn Wilshire
- Professor Roy Kessels
- Professor Ken Forster
- [Previous Visitors]
Contact Details
Telephone: (02) 9850 9599
Fax : (02) 9850 6059
Email : cogsci@mq.edu.au
Web : www.cogsci.mq.edu.au

