Charles Davis | Scholars@Duke

Charles Davis
Postdoctoral Associate

Charles works on a range of topics in cognitive science, covering semantic memory, language, and embodied cognition. He is particularly interested in how sensory-perceptual experiences and language experience contribute to semantic knowledge, or, what kids know about word meanings.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Postdoctoral Associate, Psychology & Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Contact Information

Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Langland-Hassan, P., & Davis, C. P. (2023). A context-sensitive and non-linguistic approach to abstract concepts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 378(1870), 20210355. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0355
    Full Text
  - Davis, C. P. (2023). Emergence of Covid‐19 as a Novel Concept Shifts Existing Semantic Spaces. Cognitive Science, 47(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13237
    Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Davis, C. P., Paz-Alonso, P. M., Altmann, G. T. M., & Yee, E. (2022). Encoding and inhibition of arbitrary episodic context with abstract concepts. Memory & Cognition, 50(3), 546–563. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01212-y
    Full Text
  - Davis, C. P., Eigsti, I.-M., Healy, R., Joergensen, G. H., & Yee, E. (2022). Autism-spectrum traits in neurotypicals predict the embodiment of manipulation knowledge about object concepts: Evidence from eyetracking. Plos One, 17(7), e0268069. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268069
    Full Text
  - Davis, C. P., & Yee, E. (2021). Building semantic memory from embodied and distributional language experience. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science, 12(5), e1555. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1555
    Full Text
  - Botvinik-Nezer, R., Holzmeister, F., Camerer, C. F., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., … Schonberg, T. (2020). Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. Nature, 582(7810), 84–88. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2314-9
    Full Text Link to Item
  - Davis, C. P., Altmann, G. T. M., & Yee, E. (2020). Language as a mental travel guide. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e125. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x19003182
    Full Text
  - Davis, C. P., Joergensen, G. H., Boddy, P., Dowling, C., & Yee, E. (2020). Making It Harder to "See" Meaning: The More You See Something, the More Its Conceptual Representation Is Susceptible to Visual Interference. Psychological Science, 31(5), 505–517. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620910748
    Full Text
  - Davis, C. P., Altmann, G. T. M., & Yee, E. (2020). Situational systematicity: A role for schema in understanding the differences between abstract and concrete concepts. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 37(1–2), 142–153. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2019.1710124
    Full Text
  - Davis, C. P., & Yee, E. (2019). Features, labels, space, and time: factors supporting taxonomic relationships in the anterior temporal lobe and thematic relationships in the angular gyrus. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(10), 1347–1357. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2018.1479530
    Full Text
  - Davis, C. P., Morrow, H. M., & Lupyan, G. (2019). What Does a Horgous Look Like? Nonsense Words Elicit Meaningful Drawings. Cognitive Science, 43(10). https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12791
    Full Text
  - Davis, C. P., Libben, G., & Segalowitz, S. J. (2019). Compounding matters: Event-related potential evidence for early semantic access to compound words. Cognition, 184, 44–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.12.006
    Full Text

Some information on this profile has been compiled automatically from Duke databases and external sources. (Our About page explains how this works.) If you see a problem with the information, please write to Scholars@Duke and let us know. We will reply promptly.

Selected Publications

Academic Articles