Understanding the goals or intentions of other people requires a broad range of evaluative
processes including the decoding of biological motion, knowing about object properties, and …

How do people understand language? Though vital to the study of language and the mind, a
disproportionately small body of empirical work has historically addressed this question …

In a glance, we can perceive whether a stack of dishes will topple, a branch will support a
child's weight, a grocery bag is poorly packed and liable to tear or crush its contents, or a …

I consider the role of cognitive modeling in cognitive science. Modeling, and the computers
that enable it, are central to the field, but the role of modeling is often misunderstood. Models …

Two classes of theories have emerged to explain the human ability to mentalize about the
unobservable psychological states (feelings, beliefs, goals, etc.) of others:'simulation …

Situated cognition research rejects the hypothesis that neurological structures and
processes are similar in kind to the symbols we create and use in our everyday lives. The …

Recent studies have provided evidence for mental simulation as a strategy in mechanical
reasoning. This type of reasoning can be dissociated from reasoning based on descriptive …

Abstract Representations have been viewed as the essential concern of cognitive science,
yet few studies have examined how people create, perceive, and attribute meaning to new …

The recent rise of interest in situated and embodied cognition has a strong interdisciplinary
flavor, with contributions from robotics, cognitive anthropology, cognitive psychology, and …

In recent years the cognitive science community has witnessed the rise of a new, dynamical
approach to cognition. This approach entails a framework in which cognition and behavior …