Margaret Wilson

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Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Six views of embodied cognition
    Margaret Wilson
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
    Psychon Bull Rev 9:625-36. 2002
  2. ncbi Representational momentum for the human body: awkwardness matters, experience does not
    Margaret Wilson
    Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Cruz, CA, United States
    Cognition 116:242-50. 2010
  3. ncbi The re-tooled mind: how culture re-engineers cognition
    Margaret Wilson
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
    Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 5:180-7. 2010
  4. ncbi Working memory for language is not special: evidence for an articulatory loop for novel stimuli
    Margaret Wilson
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
    Psychon Bull Rev 14:470-3. 2007
  5. ncbi No difference in short-term memory span between sign and speech
    Margaret Wilson
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
    Psychol Sci 17:1093-4. 2006
  6. ncbi Comparing sign language and speech reveals a universal limit on short-term memory capacity
    Margaret Wilson
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
    Psychol Sci 17:682-3. 2006
  7. ncbi An oscillator model of the timing of turn-taking
    Margaret Wilson
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
    Psychon Bull Rev 12:957-68. 2005
  8. ncbi The case for motor involvement in perceiving conspecifics
    Margaret Wilson
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
    Psychol Bull 131:460-73. 2005
  9. ncbi 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
  10. ncbi The mirror reflects both ways: action influences perception of others
    Sabine Blaesi
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, United States
    Brain Cogn 72:306-9. 2010

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Publications11

  1. ncbi Six views of embodied cognition
    Margaret 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...
  2. ncbi Representational momentum for the human body: awkwardness matters, experience does not
    Margaret 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...
  3. ncbi The re-tooled mind: how culture re-engineers cognition
    Margaret 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...
  4. ncbi Working memory for language is not special: evidence for an articulatory loop for novel stimuli
    Margaret 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...
  5. ncbi No difference in short-term memory span between sign and speech
    Margaret Wilson
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
    Psychol Sci 17:1093-4. 2006
  6. ncbi Comparing sign language and speech reveals a universal limit on short-term memory capacity
    Margaret Wilson
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
    Psychol Sci 17:682-3. 2006
  7. ncbi An oscillator model of the timing of turn-taking
    Margaret 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...
  8. ncbi The case for motor involvement in perceiving conspecifics
    Margaret 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...
  9. ncbi 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...
  10. ncbi The mirror reflects both ways: action influences perception of others
    Sabine 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...
  11. ncbi The puzzle of working memory for sign language
    Karen 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...