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2001
Slides available on request
2016
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“Variations
in how people understand everyday concepts: Intensions and extensions.”
Keynote address to Experimental Philosophy as Applied Philosophy. The 2016
Ratio Conference and 7th Annual Conference of Experimental
Philosophy Group UK. University of Reading, April.
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2015
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“Moral
Dynamics in Everyday Life: How Does Morality Evolve in Time?” 37th Annual
Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, July (with A.Barque-Duran,
E.M.Pothos, & J.M.Yearsley)
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“Diagnosticity:
Some Theoretical and Empirical Progress”. 37th Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, July (with J.M.Yearsley, E.M.Pothos,
& A.Barque-Duran)
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“Gender
and Generics: What makes a gender-specific generic sentence true?”
European and Asian-Pacific Cognitive Science conference EAPCogSci2015,
Torino, September (Joint poster with A.Passanisi)
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“Individual
variation in concepts: a disconnect between intensions and extensions”.
Annual Convention of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, November (with
A.Passanisi).
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“The
Triangle Inequality Constraint in Similarity Judgments”. Annual Meeting of
the Society for Mathematical Psychology. Newport Beach, CA., July. (with
J.M.Yearsley, A.Barque-Duran, E.M.Pothos, & E.Scerrati).
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2014
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“Psychology,
Linguistics and Philosophy – three views of concepts”. Keynote speaker
at mid-term meeting of the Italian Association for Cognitive Science, Enna
Sicily, March.
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Discussant at
final Eurounderstanding Conference, Lisbon, May.
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“Intonational stress and
disambiguation of compounds”. Poster presented at Annual Convention of the
Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, May.
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“Concepts
and Creativity". Invited speaker, International Symposium of Academic
Lecturers and Professors - Section Cognition, Learning and Teaching,
University of Rome, October
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“Individual
differences in concepts – intension and extension”. Eurocores final
workshop “Eurounderstanding. Understanding and Misunderstanding:
Cognition, Communication and Culture.” Tallin, Estonia, October.
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2013
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“Context Effects in Conceptual
Categorization”. Eurocores programme second workshop “Eurounderstanding.
Understanding and Misunderstanding: Cognition, Communication and Culture.”
Trondheim, Norway, June. |
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“Disambiguating
NN combinations with left/right stress”. 35th Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, July (Joint poster with D.Heussen, Z.Argel &
H.Kanbi).
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“Composition and Prototype Concepts”. Keynote speaker
at conference: Concept composition and experimental semantics/pragmatics.
Utrecht University, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, September.
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“Knowledge
Biases Recall Over the Short Term: Familiar Objects and Faces.” Annual
Convention of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, November (Joint poster with
M.Poirier, S.Tasnim & D.Heussen).
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2012
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“Second order vagueness and the stability of
‘definitely’ judgments”.Workshop
on Vagueness in Language, Reasoning and Cognition, Amsterdam, January
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Discussant
and participant. Eurocores programme second workshop “Eurounderstanding.
Understanding and Misunderstanding: Cognition, Communication and Culture.”
Stockholm, May.
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“Similarity
and Categorization”. Keynote speaker at 15th Annual Meeting of
Organizational Ecologists, Copenhagen Business School, July.
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“Concepts
from Three Perspectives”. Symposiast at annual meeting of European Society
for Philosophy and Psychology, London, August.
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“Adopting
stereotypical points of view about gender-based social categories”.
Eurocores programme third workshop: Coordination and Disagreement across
Perspectives. Lisbon, September.
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“The
reliability of being 100% sure. Differences between epistemic and
non-epistemic uncertainty.” Workshop
on Deciding
under Non-Epistemic Uncertainty, University of Freiburg, Germany,
October.
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“More
Known Unknowns:
Familiarity and Memorability moderate the Rumsfeld Effect”. Annual
Convention of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, November.
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“Knowledge
Biases Recall Over the Short Term: Familiar Objects and Faces.” Annual
Convention of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, November (Joint poster
with M.Poirier, L.Taylor & D.Heussen).
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2011
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“An effect of semantic memory on immediate memory in the
visual domain”. European Cognitive Science Society Conference, Sofia, May
(with D.Heussen, M.Poirier & S.Aldrovandi). |
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“Similarity and conceptual representations”. Workshop on
Similarity. Oxford University, September. |
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Discussant and participant. Eurocores programme
“Eurounderstanding. Understanding and Misunderstanding: Cognition,
Communication and Culture.” Malmö, Sweden, October. |
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“Generics as reflecting conceptual knowledge”. Workshop
Genericité: Interpretation et Usages, III: Généricité: de la morphologie à
la cognition. Paris, December |
2010
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“Vagueness in Category Judgments”. Atelier on Vagueness and
Similarity, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, May. |
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“Measuring concepts”. Atelier on Sounds, Music and
Soundscapes, INCAS/Laboratoire d’Acoustique et Musique, Paris, June. |
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“Intonation Stress and the Disambiguation of NN Compounds”.
Annual Convention of the Psychonomic Society, St Louis. November (with
D.Heussen). |
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“Object knowledge biases memory over the short term for
object size.” Annual Convention of the Psychonomic Society, St Louis.
November
(Poster with M.Poirier, D.Heussen, & S.Aldrovandi). |
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“Measures of similarity in categorisation research in
cognitive psychology”. Third LAM/INCAS3 workshop on Free sorting tasks and
measures of similarity. Paris, November (with D.Dubois). |
2009
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“Conceptual combination – logic and creativity in combining
ideas.” Workshop Internazionale “Semantic integration, conceptual
combination: interdisciplinary perspectives”. University of Catania, Sicily,
Cognitive Science, April. |
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“Locating concepts: the role for prototypes”. Concepts,
Consciousness and Attention, Workshop at University of Bristol, Philosophy,
June. |
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“The modifier effect: Default inheritance in complex noun
phrases.” 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society, Amsterdam, July. (Paper with M.Jönsson & A.Passanisi). |
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“When prototypes are not best: Judgments made by children
with autism”. British Psychological Society Developmental Psychology Section
Conference, Nottingham, Sept. Poster with C.Molesworth and D.M.Bowler. |
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“Are Jungle Ravens Birds? How Atypical Modifiers Create Doubt
in Generic Sentences”. Annual Convention of the Psychonomic Society, Boston,
November. (Paper with A.Passanisi & M.Jönsson). |
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“Negative premises in category based induction”. Annual
Convention of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, November. Poster with
D.Heussen |
2008
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“Concepts in the world, in society, and in the head.”
Workshop on Psychology and Philosophy of Concepts, University of California
at Berkeley, March. |
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The Rumsfeld Effect: When we reliably know that we don't
know”. Experimental Psychology Society, Cambridge, April. (Paper with B.
Aina, J.M.Andersson, P.Gorasia and S.Parmar.) |
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“The Modifier Effect in
generic sentences: Evidence for prototype inheritance.”
Experimental Psychology Society, Cambridge, April. (Poster with A.Passanisi
and M.C.Jönsson). |
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“Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns: When people are sure
that they are unsure.” Workshop on Cognitive Framing and Strategy Making,
Helsinki, May. (Paper with B. Aina, J.M.Andersson, P.Gorasia and S.Parmar.) |
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“Ways of explaining properties”. 30th Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society, Washington DC, July. (Paper with D.Heussen). |
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“Typicality and vagueness”. Atelier on Philosophical and
Psychological studies of Vagueness, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris,
November. |
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“The Rumsfeld Effect: the unknown unknown”. Annual Convention
of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, November. |
2007
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“Imagery and the Interpretation of Ambiguous Noun-Noun
Combinations”. Third Meeting of the European Cognitive Science Society,
Delphi Greece, May. (Paper with D.Francis & G.Robson.) |
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“Emeralds are precious because they are rare”. Third Meeting
of the European Cognitive Science Society, Delphi Greece, May. (Paper with
D.Heussen). |
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“Effect of instructions to visualize on interpretation of
novel ambiguous noun-noun phrases”. Joint meeting of the Cognitive Science
Society and the Experimental Psychology Society, Edinburgh, July. (Paper
with D.Francis & G.Robson.) |
2006
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"Stability in Concepts and Evaluating the Truth of Generic
Statements." Cognitive Science Conference on Mass Terms and Generics, Simon
Fraser University, Vancouver, February. |
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"The Influence of Conceptual Coherence on the Plausibility of
Property Explanations." Poster with D.Heussen presented at the Annual
Convention of the Psychonomic Society, Houston TX, November |
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"Essentialist Beliefs about Basic and Superordinate Level
Categories." Poster with C.L.Simmons, presented at the Annual Convention of
the Psychonomic Society, Houston TX, November |
2005
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“Comparative Judgment in Colour Categories”. (Paper with
C.L.Simmons & Z.Estes) European Congress of Psychology, Granada Spain. July. |
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"Psychological approaches to perceptual categorisation". Le
Sensolier: Catégorisation et categories: des théories cognitives aux
pratiques en evaluation sensorielle. Paris, October. |
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"Effects of noun modification on the plausibility of
attribute information". (Paper with M.L.Jönsson) Annual Convention of the
Psychonomic Society, Toronto, November. |
2004
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“Typicality and
Compositionality: The logic of combining vague concepts”. New Aspects of
Compositionality, Sorbonne/ENS Paris June.* |
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“Feature dependence in Prototype Concepts – evidence on
natural kinds”. Third Leuven Workshop on Concepts and Categories, Leuven,
July.* |
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“Feature dependence in Natural Concepts”. Annual meeting of
the European Mathematical Psychology Group, Ghent, September.* |
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“Reasons for Vagueness”. Annual Convention of the
Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, November. |
2003
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“Typicality and Vagueness”. Workshop on Conceptual Spaces and
Categorization. Lund, Sweden, June.* |
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“Feature Independence in Natural Categories”. (Paper with
C.L.Simmons). Annual Convention of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver,
November. |
2002
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Invited discussant. Workshop on Conceptual functioning in
Autism. Cambridge, March.* |
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"Demonstrating a conclusion typicality effect in
category-based induction". ESRC seminar series Object Recognition and
Categorization. London, April. |
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Invited discussant, and chair. British Academy/ Novartis
workshop on Conceptual knowledge: developmental, biological, functional and
computational accounts. London June.* |
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"A conclusion typicality effect in category-based induction".
(Paper with I.Kempff-Andersen). European Society for Philosophy and
Psychology, Lyon, July. |
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"Conclusion typicality affects category-based induction".
(Paper with I.Cannon). Annual Convention of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas
City, November. |
2001
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“Abstraction in Concept Representation” Meeting of Atelier
ACI Cognitique at the Ministre de la Recherche, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris,
January. * |
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"Concepts and Categories - Future Prospects". Workshop on
Future Directions in Cognitive Psychology. Hothorpe Hall, Open University,
February. * |
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"Imagining the Impossible". (Paper with A.Green and Z.Estes).
Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Edinburgh, August. |
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"Comparative Color Judgments". (Paper with Z.Estes). Annual
Convention of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando Florida, November. |
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