During my postdoctoral years, I decided to attend a small, niche conference to delve deeper into a specific area of neuroscience. I didn’t know anyone, so I was grateful to meet another postdoc who also found themself on the fringe. As we bonded, he shared a saying that has stuck with me: “there are people […]
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When you are as thoughtful, intellectually curious, and gracious as Larry Barsalou is, you can inspire others without even knowing it. While I have never been lucky enough to work with Larry closely as a mentee or a colleague, my career would not be what it is today without his personal influence. To understand Larry’s […]
I am extremely happy to be part of a tribute for Larry Barsalou. Having worked on word meaning, concepts, and related issues for a number of years, Larry’s ideas have strongly influenced me, just like they continue to influence a large number of young and older researchers. Larry’s work on ad hoc concepts, embodied/grounded cognition, […]
Larry Barsalou is brilliant. In my view, he made one of the most important scientific discoveries in the modern era of psychological science: ad hoc concepts. It is not hyperbole to say that my own scientific efforts, in part, owe their existence to Larry’s discovery of ad hoc concepts. Before Larry’s seminal work, a category […]
In the mid-1990’s, I was extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to explore how conceptual/semantic information was represented in the human brain. One of these studies, published in Science in 1995, focused on the neural systems underpinning retrieval of information about the object-associated color and action, the other, published in Nature in 1996, focused on […]
This Digital Event focuses on the scientific contributions of Lawrence Barsalou (pictured below). Articles in this Digital Event: Digital Event honoring Larry Barsalou — Still grounded after all these years Larry Barsalou – enthusiasm, flexibility, and depth Formidable, flexible, friendly, and fun Grounding concepts in the brain Ad hoc concepts as a fundamental operating principle […]
We have known Larry for a long time. At first it was a one-way affair, when we were in graduate school and read his work. After we studied Larry’s paper on ad-hoc categories our view on semantic memory was never the same again. We had been working on the boundary between episodic and semantic memory, […]
Larry Barsalou is definitively the person who has influenced my scientific activity most deeply. Everything started when I was a graduate student in Psychology at the University of Bologna and went to the University of Chicago as a visiting scholar. I had read all of Larry’s papers, had the chance to go abroad during the […]
Every scientific field has its stars, and one of the joys—or, for the more competitive among us, frustrations—of academic life is frequently being gobsmacked by how brilliant they are as they advance through their amazing careers. For many decades now, one of the brightest luminaries in cognitive psychology has been Larry Barsalou, and I’m delighted […]
Learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum, so why do our recommendations for “strategic learning” ignore context? When we think about investigating learning – what it is and what processes are involved – we might think about it in ways similar to how Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) proposed in their model of human memory: Maybe you […]