Discrete thoughts: Why cognition must use discrete representations

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Embodied Cognition is Not What you Think it is (2013, methodology): “Cognitive science is, therefore, in the business of identifying this content and how it is accessed and used (see Dietrich and Markman, 2003 for a discussion of this).”
MouseTracker: Software for studying real-time mental processing using a computer mouse-tracking method (2010, background): “Part of the story may be researchers’ genuine subscription to discrete representational or symbolicist accounts of cognition (see, e.g., Dietrich & Markman, 2003; Newell, 1980; Pylyshyn, 1984), but some of this may be due to the simple fact that the methodological toolbox has not yet seen somethin”
How are words stored in memory? Beyond phones and phonemes (2007, background): “One important one is a fundamental property of language that has been noted by many observers over the years (e.g., Abler, 1989; Chomsky & Halle, 1964; Dietrich & Markman, 2003; Goldstein & Fowler, 2003; Hockett, 1968; Holland, 1995; Studdert-Kennedy, 2003; Von Humboldt, 1836/1972).”