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Six views of embodied cognitionMargaret Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 9:625-36. 2002..The fourth claim, I argue, is deeply problematic. The sixth claim has received the least attention in the literature on embodied cognition, but it may in fact be the best documented and most powerful of the six claims...
Representational momentum for the human body: awkwardness matters, experience does notMargaret Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Cognition 116:242-50. 2010..Results are discussed in terms of recent findings on the mirror system...
The re-tooled mind: how culture re-engineers cognitionMargaret Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 5:180-7. 2010..I conclude by discussing the implications for the agenda of cognitive science...
Working memory for language is not special: evidence for an articulatory loop for novel stimuliMargaret Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 14:470-3. 2007..We conclude that working memory maintenance does not rely on a dedicated architecture, but instead involves the strategic recruitment of resources as needed for the task demands...
No difference in short-term memory span between sign and speechMargaret Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
Psychol Sci 17:1093-4. 2006
Comparing sign language and speech reveals a universal limit on short-term memory capacityMargaret Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Psychol Sci 17:682-3. 2006
An oscillator model of the timing of turn-takingMargaret Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 12:957-68. 2005..This model not only captures the timing phenomena observed inthe literature on conversation analysis, but also converges with findings from the literatures on phoneme timing, syllable organization, and interpersonal coordination...
The case for motor involvement in perceiving conspecificsMargaret Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Psychol Bull 131:460-73. 2005..Evidence from a variety of literatures is brought to bear to support this account of perceiving human body movement...
Do young chimpanzees have extraordinary working memory?Peter Cook
Department of Cognitive Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 17:599-600. 2010..Here we report that, after adequate practice, 2 university students substantially outperformed the chimpanzee. There is no evidence for a superior or qualitatively different spatial memory system in chimpanzees...
The mirror reflects both ways: action influences perception of othersSabine Blaesi
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, United States
Brain Cogn 72:306-9. 2010..Subjects remained unaware of the connection between the action and the main task. The results show that perception can change as a result of the observer's ongoing actions...
The puzzle of working memory for sign languageKaren Emmorey
Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 8:521-3. 2004..At the same time, however, their results show that sign language and spoken language yield equivalent processing spans, suggesting that reliance on immediate-serial-recall measures in clinical and educational testing is misplaced...
