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Overview

Michael J. Spivey is affiliated with the University of California, Merced in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with a strong focus on neuroscience, psychology, and computer science.

The scientist's work covers significant subfields including cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and social psychology. Their research topics emphasize neural dynamics and brain function, categorization, perception, and language, as well as neurobiology of language and bilingualism. Other areas include action observation and synchronization, neural networks and reservoir computing, neural networks applications, and language, metaphor, and cognition.

Michael J. Spivey has published extensively in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Multiscale Neuroscience
  • Brain Research
  • Topics in Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Science
  • Scientific Reports

Their recent papers illustrate the range and focus of their research. These include:

  • Is prediction nothing more than multi-scale pattern completion of the future? (2021, Brain Research)
  • Coordination dynamics of multi-agent interaction in a musical ensemble (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • Cognitive Science Progresses Toward Interactive Frameworks (2023, Topics in Cognitive Science)
  • A potential mechanism for Gibsonian resonance: behavioral entrainment emerges from local homeostasis in an unsupervised reservoir network (2023, Cognitive Neurodynamics)
  • Decision-Making in the Human-Machine Interface (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)

Michael J. Spivey collaborates frequently with several coauthors. These include J. Benjamin Falandays, who has coauthored multiple works, as well as Soran Malaie, Benjamin Nguyen, Shannon Proksch, and Majerle Reeves.

Besides articles, Michael J. Spivey has contributed to book publications. A notable example is the book titled Who You Are, published in 2020 by The MIT Press.

Best Publications

  • The Continuity of Mind

    Michael Spivey

  • Competing activation in bilingual language processing: Within- and between-language competition.

    Viorica Marian;Michael Spivey

  • Continuous attraction toward phonological competitors

    Michael J. Spivey;Marc Grosjean;Günther Knoblich

  • Cross Talk Between Native and Second Languages: Partial Activation of an Irrelevant Lexicon

    Michael J. Spivey;Viorica Marian

  • Eye Movements and Problem Solving Guiding Attention Guides Thought

    Elizabeth R. Grant;Michael J. Spivey

  • Oculomotor mechanisms activated by imagery and memory: eye movements to absent objects.

    Michael J. Spivey;Joy J. Geng

  • Spatial representations activated during real‐time comprehension of verbs

    Daniel C. Richardson;Michael J. Spivey;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Ken McRae

  • Eye movements and spoken language comprehension: effects of visual context on syntactic ambiguity resolution.

    Michael J Spivey;Michael K Tanenhaus;Kathleen M Eberhard;Julie C Sedivy

  • Representation, space and Hollywood Squares: looking at things that aren't there anymore

    Daniel C Richardson;Michael J Spivey

  • Shared and separate systems in bilingual language processing: converging evidence from eyetracking and brain imaging.

    Viorica Marian;Michael Spivey;Joy Hirsch

  • Bilingual and monolingual processing of competing lexical items

    Viorica Marian;Michael Spivey

  • Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution in Discourse: Modeling the Effects of Referential Context and Lexical Frequency

    Michael J. Spivey;Michael K. Tanenhaus

  • Graded motor responses in the time course of categorizing atypical exemplars

    Rick Dale;Caitlin Kehoe;Michael J. Spivey

  • Action Dynamics Reveal Parallel Competition in Decision Making

    Chris McKinstry;Rick Dale;Michael J. Spivey

  • Continuous Dynamics in Real-Time Cognition

    Michael J. Spivey;Rick Dale

  • The mechanics of embodiment: a dialog on embodiment and computational modeling.

    Giovanni Pezzulo;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Angelo Cangelosi;Martin H. Fischer

  • Computational Grounded Cognition: a new alliance between grounded cognition and computational modeling.

    Giovanni Pezzulo;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Angelo Cangelosi;Martin H. Fischer

  • Biasing moral decisions by exploiting the dynamics of eye gaze

    Philip Pärnamets;Petter Johansson;Lars Hall;Christian Balkenius

  • Unraveling the Dyad: Using Recurrence Analysis to Explore Patterns of Syntactic Coordination Between Children and Caregivers in Conversation

    Rick Dale;Michael J. Spivey

  • Eye Movements During Comprehension of Spoken Scene Descriptions

    Michael J. Spivey;Melinda J. Tyler;Daniel C. Richardson;Ezekiel E. Young

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics

    Michael Spivey;Ken McRae;Marc Joanisse

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel C. Richardson
Daniel C. Richardson University College London
Rick Dale
Rick Dale University of California, Los Angeles
Ken McRae
Ken McRae University of Western Ontario
Marc F. Joanisse
Marc F. Joanisse University of Western Ontario
Gary Lupyan
Gary Lupyan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael K. Tanenhaus
Michael K. Tanenhaus University of Rochester
Viorica Marian
Viorica Marian Northwestern University
Carol L. Krumhansl
Carol L. Krumhansl Cornell University
Lawrence W. Barsalou
Lawrence W. Barsalou University of Glasgow
Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer University of Potsdam

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