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Perceptual modalities: modes of presentation or modes of interaction?
(Imprint Academic, 2010)
Perceptual modalities have been traditionally considered
the product of dedicated biological systems producing information for
higher cognitive processing. Psychological and neuropsychological
evidence is offered which ...
Searching for moral dumbfounding: identifying measurable indicators of moral dumbfounding
(2017)
Moral dumbfounding is defined as maintaining a moral judgement, without supporting reasons. The most cited demonstration of dumbfounding does not identify a specific measure of dumbfounding and has not been published in ...
Enacting a social ecology: radically embodied intersubjectivity
(Frontiers, 2014)
Embodied approaches to cognitive science frequently describe the mind as “world-involving, ”indicating complementary and interdependent relationships between an agent and its environment. The precise nature of the environment ...
How mean is the mean?
(Frontiers, 2013)
In this paper we voice concerns about the uncritical manner in which the mean is often used as a summary statistic in psychological research. We identify a number of implicit assumptions underlying the use of the mean and ...
Sampling participants’ experience in laboratory experiments: complementary challenges for more complete data collection
(Frontiers, 2016)
Speelman and McGann’s (2013) examination of the uncritical way in which the mean is often used in psychological research raises questions both about the average’s reliability and its validity. In the present paper, we argue ...
Situated agency: the normative medium of human action
(Croatian Philosophical Society, 2014)
In this paper the notion of individual agency is critically examined in light of the enactive approach to understanding the mind. It is argued that following the work of Hanne De Jaegher, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Tom Froese and ...
Loud crisis, quiet crisis: Varela’s proposal resonates in contemporary psychological science
(Constructivist Foundations, 2017)
Open peer commentary on the article “Varela’s Radical Proposal: How to Embody and Open Up Cognitive Science” by Kristian Moltke Martiny. Upshot: Varela’s proposal that science should be open to the phenomena of experience ...
Convergently emergent- ecological and enactive approaches to the texture of agency (Pre-published)
(Frontiers Media, 2020-08-07)
Enactive and ecological approaches to cognitive science both claim a “mutuality” between agents and their environments – that they have a complementary nature and should be addressed as a single whole system. Despite this ...
T-REX- the teachers’ research exchange. Overcoming the research-practice gap in education (Pre-published)
(Springer, 2020-04-19)
This paper introduces the Teachers Research Exchange (T-REX), an online community of practice that is currently being deployed on a pilot basis nationwide in Ireland as a response to the research-practice gap . The system ...