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Michael Ramscar
Researcher at University of Tübingen
Publications - 126
Citations - 4415
Michael Ramscar is an academic researcher from University of Tübingen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Discrimination learning & Language acquisition. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 122 publications receiving 3895 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Ramscar include Stanford University & University of Edinburgh.
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The Roles of Body and Mind in Abstract Thought
Lera Boroditsky,Michael Ramscar +1 more
TL;DR: The authors demonstrate that abstract knowledge can be built analogically from more experience-based knowledge, and that it is not sensorimotor spatial experience per se that influences people's thinking about time, but rather people's representations of and thinking about their spatial experience.
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Cognition Without Control When a Little Frontal Lobe Goes a Long Way
TL;DR: It is argued that cognitive control impedes convention learning and that delayed prefrontal maturation is a necessary adaptation for human learning of social and linguistic conventions.
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The Myth of Cognitive Decline: Non‐Linear Dynamics of Lifelong Learning
TL;DR: The results indicate that older adults'; performance on cognitive tests reflects the predictable consequences of learning on information-processing, and not cognitive decline, and this for the scientific and cultural understanding of aging.
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The Effects of Feature-Label-Order and Their Implications for Symbolic Learning
TL;DR: The results and analysis suggest that the semantic categories people use to understand and communicate about the world can only be learned if labels are predicted from objects.
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On the Experiential Link Between Spatial and Temporal Language
TL;DR: This work investigated whether thought about a nonliteral type of motion called fictive motion (FM) can influence thought about time, and suggested that these literal aspects of FM influence temporal reasoning.