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Charles Davis

Charles Davis

Postdoctoral Associate
Psychology & Neuroscience

Overview

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.

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In the News

Published May 16, 2021
How Names and Words Shape the Way We Perceive People and Things
Published May 20, 2020
Research Teams Reach Different Results From Same Brain-Scan Data

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Recent Publications

A context-sensitive and non-linguistic approach to abstract concepts.

Journal Article Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · February 2023 Despite the recent upsurge in research on abstract concepts, there remain puzzles at the foundation of their empirical study. These are most evident when we consider what is required to assess a person's abstract conceptual abilities without using language ... Full text Cite

Emergence of Covid‐19 as a Novel Concept Shifts Existing Semantic Spaces

Journal Article Cognitive Science · January 2023 AbstractConceptual knowledge is dynamic, fluid, and flexible, changing as a function of contextual factors at multiple scales. The Covid‐19 pandemic can be considered a large‐scale, global context that has fundamentally alt ... Full text Open Access Cite

Is time an embodied property of concepts?

Journal Article PloS one · January 2023 A haircut usually lasts under an hour. But how long does it take to recognize that something is an instance of a haircut? And is this "time-to-perceive" a part of the representation of concepts like haircut? Across three experiments testing lexical decisio ... Full text Cite
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