Research Interests My interests are in visual cognition and perception-action links, particularly in the context of perceiving human actions. I explore this question with studies about:
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The sensorimotor nature of working memory
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Perception and working memory for sign language in deaf signers
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The relationship between a subject's body posture and their perception or memory of others' body postures
I am particularly interested in developing theoretical accounts of these issues. My theoretical interests include embodied cognition (particularly 'off-line' embodied cognition); the evolution of cognition; the cognitive consequences of the ability to imitate; and the cognitive role(s) played by the 'mirror system.'
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Courses Taught
Psyc 121: Perception
Psyc 130: Visual & Spatial Cognition
Psyc 120D: Deafness & Sign Language (senior seminar)
Psyc 232: Evolution of Cognition (graduate course)
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Wilson, M. (2008). How did we get from there to here? An evolutionary perspective on embodied cognition. In P. Calvo & T. Gomila (Eds.), Directions for an Embodied Cognitive Science: Towards an Integrated Approach. Elsevier. |
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Wilson, M. & Fox, G. (2007) Working memory for language is not special: Evidence for an articulatory loop for novel stimuli. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14,470-473. |
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Wilson, M. & Emmorey, K. (2006). No difference in short term memory span between sign and speech. Psychological Science, 17,1093-1094. |
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Wilson, M. & Emmorey, K. (2006). Comparing sign language and speech reveals a universal limit on short term memory capacity. Psychological Science, 17, 682-683. |
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Wilson, M. & Wilson, T. P. (2006). An oscillator model of the timing of turn-taking. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 957-968. |
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Wilson, M. & Knoblich, G. (2005). The case for motor involvement in perceiving conspecifics. Psychological Bulletin, 131, 460-473. |
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Wilson, M. (2002). Six views of embodied cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 625-636. |
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Wilson, M. (2001). Perceiving imitatable stimuli: Consequences of isomorphism between input and output. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 543-553. |
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Wilson, M. (2001). The case for sensorimotor coding in working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 8, 44-57. |
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