Mary Harmon-Vukić
Biographic Data
| ID | 6213240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Harmon-Vukić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Harmon-Vukić |
| SIGNATURE | HARMON-VUKIĆ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Providence College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vastness as an Embodied Representation of Existential Concepts
This project explores the nature of the representation of non-agentic qualities that are associated with the Christian God (e.g., peace, love, joy, existence, unity, etc.). Specifically, we propose that these existential words maintain an embodied representation that involves visuo-spatial vastness. In four experiments, participants saw an image followed by words and non-words. The words were either existential words (e.g., peace, hope, unity, jo…
Understanding the Role of Context on Memory for Maximally Counterintuitive Concepts
The current study examined how contextual information, defined as information represented at the level of the situation model, influenced memory for minimally and maximally counterintuitive stories. The first two experiments investigated whether the presence of explicit instructions to make sense of “strange information” in the stories influenced memory for maximally counterintuitive stories. Although no such effect was observed, post hoc analyse…
Toward an empirical approach to understanding counterintuitiveness, the supernatural, and the divine
Purzycki and Willard (2015) provided a much-needed critique of the minimal counterintuitiveness (MCI) hypothesis, survey the current state of the cognitive science of religion, and propose future d
Understanding the memory advantage of counterintuitive concepts
Previous work suggests that concepts that are only slightly counterintuitive are more memorable than concepts that are intuitive or overly counterintuitive (Boyer, 1994; Boyer & Ramble, 2001), although causes for this memory advantage have been debated (Barrett, 2008; Upal, 2009). We conducted four experiments to better understand the cognitive processes that underlie memory for counterintuitive concepts by recording both reading time and recall …
The Activation and Instantiation of Instrumental Inferences
Participants read a series of passages containing an action that required the use of an instrument. In Experiment 1, a naming task failed to detect activation of a target instrument when that instrument was supported in the preceding text. In Experiment 2, reading times were slow on a target sentence that contradicted the inferential information, indicating that instrument information had been activated. The combination of the results from Experi…
The Activation and Instantiation of Instrumental Inferences
Participants read a series of passages containing an action that required the use of an instrument. In Experiment 1, a naming task failed to detect activation of a target instrument when that instrument was supported in the preceding text. In Experiment 2, reading times were slow on a target sentence that contradicted the inferential information, indicating that instrument information had been activated. The combination of the results from Experi…
The Activation and Instantiation of Instrumental Inferences
Participants read a series of passages containing an action that required the use of an instrument. In Experiment 1, a naming task failed to detect activation of a target instrument when that instrument was supported in the preceding text. In Experiment 2, reading times were slow on a target sentence that contradicted the inferential information, indicating that instrument information had been activated. The combination of the results from Experi…
Understanding the memory advantage of counterintuitive concepts
Previous work suggests that concepts that are only slightly counterintuitive are more memorable than concepts that are intuitive or overly counterintuitive (Boyer, 1994; Boyer & Ramble, 2001), although causes for this memory advantage have been debated (Barrett, 2008; Upal, 2009). We conducted four experiments to better understand the cognitive processes that underlie memory for counterintuitive concepts by recording both reading time and recall …
Toward an empirical approach to understanding counterintuitiveness, the supernatural, and the divine
Purzycki and Willard (2015) provided a much-needed critique of the minimal counterintuitiveness (MCI) hypothesis, survey the current state of the cognitive science of religion, and propose future d
Understanding the Role of Context on Memory for Maximally Counterintuitive Concepts
The current study examined how contextual information, defined as information represented at the level of the situation model, influenced memory for minimally and maximally counterintuitive stories. The first two experiments investigated whether the presence of explicit instructions to make sense of “strange information” in the stories influenced memory for maximally counterintuitive stories. Although no such effect was observed, post hoc analyse…
Vastness as an Embodied Representation of Existential Concepts
This project explores the nature of the representation of non-agentic qualities that are associated with the Christian God (e.g., peace, love, joy, existence, unity, etc.). Specifically, we propose that these existential words maintain an embodied representation that involves visuo-spatial vastness. In four experiments, participants saw an image followed by words and non-words. The words were either existential words (e.g., peace, hope, unity, jo…
Psychology (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (2 works) · Counterintuitive (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (2 works)