Current affiliations

• Position

  Assistant Professor

  Company

  Franklin & Marshall College -and- University of Maryland, College Park

  Further information

City:

College Park, Maryland, United States

Hub:

Washington DC-Baltimore

My primary areas of research include an account of the evolution of the cortex via exaptation of existing neural circuitry (the “massive redeployment hypothesis”); the role of behavior, and of the brain’s motor-control areas, in supporting higher-order cognitive functions (“action grounded cognition”); the foundations of intentionality and representation (“the guidance theory of representation”; “the multiple modes theory of epistemic openness”) and the role of self-monitoring and self-control in maintaining robust real-world agency (“the metacognitive loop”).

The massive redeployment hypothesis

Investigating the functional connectivity of the human cortex with graph-theoretic methods

The metacognitive loop