Publications

Designed, completed, and analyzed projects with human subjects and big data. Authored dozens of journal articles, chapters, conference proceedings and other reports on a wide range of topics in the cognitive and brain sciences in prestigious outlets, including works on knowledge representation, the reliance on technology, moral decision making, creativity, and language use.

Dissertation

Ramey, C. H. (2005). Thematic typicality in modifier-noun conceptual combinations: Controlling for presentation-order effects. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, 66(5-B), 2850.

Journal articles & Chapters

Chrysikou, E. G., †Hanson, G. K., Ramey, C. H., Martin, L. E., Choi, I. -Y., Lee, P., & Brooks, W. M. (2017). Transcranial direct current stimulation effects on prefrontal cortex in major depressive disorder (MDD) measured by in vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS). Brain Stimulation, 10, e53-e54.

Ramey, C. H. (2016). The extended mind. In H. K. Miller (Ed.), Encyclopedia of theory in psychology (2 Vols; pp. 322-325). SAGE.

Ramey, C. H., & Chrysikou, E. G. (2014). Coherence, causation, and the future of cognitive neuroscience research. Cognitive Neuroscience, 5, 212-213.

Ramey, C. H., & Chrysikou, E. G. (2014). ‘Not in their right mind’: The relation of psychopathology to the quantity and quality of creative thought. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 835 (4pp.) http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00835.

Ramey, C. H. (2014). Review essay of the book Varieties of presence. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 34, 275-278.

Ramey, C. H., Chrysikou, E. G., & Reilly, J. (2013). Snapshots of children’s changing biases during language development: Differential weighting of perceptual and linguistic factors predicts noun age-of-acquisition. Journal of Cognition & Development, 14, 573-592.

Ramey, C. H. (2010). Review essay of the book Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st century. Philosophical Psychology, 23, 125-129.

Ramey, C. H. (2008). Culture as extended mind and body. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 27(2)-28(1), 146-169.

Ramey, C. H. (2007). Review essay of the book Consciousness and its objects. Philosophical Psychology, 20, 547-551.

Reilly, J., Chrysikou, E. G., & Ramey, C. H. (2007). Support for a hybrid model of the age of acquisition of English nouns. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 1164-1170.

Ramey, C. H. (2007). Review essay of the book Creativity in science: Chance, logic, genius, and Zeitgeist. Philosophical Psychology, 20, 135-139.

Ramey, C. H. (2005). Did God create psychologists in His image? Re-conceptualizing cognitivism and the subject matter of psychology. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 25, 173-190.

Ramey, C. H., & Chrysikou, E. G. (2005). The scientific denial of the real and the dialectic of scientism and humanism. American Psychologist, 60, 346-347.

Ramey, C. H., & Weisberg, R. W. (2004). The ‘poetical activity’ of Emily Dickinson: A further test of the hypothesis that affective disorder enhances creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 16, 173-185.

Reilly, J., Ramey, C. H., & Milsark, G. (2004). Confounds in the distinction between high and low imageability words: Phonological, etymological, and morphological differences. Brain and Language, 91, 147-149.

† notes undergraduate and graduate collaborators.

Requests for reprints

 

ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS: Conference proceedings and paper presentations

Ramey, C. H. (2017, August). Neuroethics in popular media. Paper presented at the 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC. August 3-6.

Ramey, C. H. (2017, June). Using Google’s Ngram to place an author in time. Paper presented at Studies in the History of English Language (SHEL) 10. Lawrence, KS. June 2-4, 2017.

Ramey, C. H. (2016, July). An Empirical Investigation of Poe’s ‘Masque of the Red Death’ Using Google’s Ngram. Biannual Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature. Chicago, IL., July 6-9 2016.

Ramey, C. H. (2016, August). Neuroethics in Science Fiction: Psycho-Pass as a Case Study. 2016 Campbell Conference MidAmericon II Academic Track.

Ramey, C. H. (2016, August). The moral imperative of reading fiction. Paper presented at the 124th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. Denver, CO.

Ramey, C. H. (2016, March). The moral psychology of fictional characters. Paper presented at the 6th Midwinter Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24 of the American Psychological Association). Salt Lake City, UT.

Ramey, C. H. (2014, August). Consciousness and the extended mind. Paper presented at the 122nd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (Division 1 Symposium: “The General Problem of Consciousness: Ongoing Challenges for Psychological Science”). Washington, DC.

Ramey, C. H. (2014, March). The moral dilemma of reading fiction. Paper presented at the 5th Midwinter Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24 of the American Psychological Association). Atlanta, GA.

Ramey, C. H. (2013, August). Unifying psychology with the extended mind. Paper presented at the 121st Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (Division 1 Symposium: “Integrative Strategies for the 21st Century: Implications for a Renewed General Psychology”). Honolulu, HI.

Ramey, C. H. (2013, February). Varieties of perceptual presence, Varieties of moral psychology. Paper presented at the 4th Midwinter Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24 of the American Psychological Association). Austin, TX.

Ramey, C. H. (2012, March). Neuroscience and the extended mind: A new foundation for moral psychology. Paper presented at the 3rd Biennial Midwinter Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24 of the American Psychological Association). Austin, TX.

Ramey, C. H. (2010, February). Neuroethics and the extended mind. Paper presented at the Second Biennial Midwinter Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24 of the American Psychological Association). Miami, FL.

Ramey, C. H., & Chrysikou, E. G. (2008). Good times, bad times: Valence influences the adoption of spatio-temporal metaphors. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Cognitive Science Society (p. 2279). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Chrysikou, E. G., & Ramey, C. H. (2007). Factors influencing the adoption of time metaphors. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Annual Cognitive Science Society (p. 1724). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Ramey, C. H. (2006). An inventory of reported characteristics for home computers, robots, and human beings: Applications for android science and the uncanny valley. In Proceedings of the ICCS/CogSci-2006 Long Symposium: Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science (pp. 21-25). [July 2006, Vancouver, Canada]; or Proceedings of the ICCS: 2006 Workshop: Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science (pp. 43-47).

Ramey, C. H. (2006). Conscience as a design benchmark in social robots. Proceedings of RO-MAN 06: The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: Getting to Know Socially Intelligent Robots, Toward Psychological Benchmarks in Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 486-491). [September 2006, Hatfield, UK]

Ramey, C. H. (2006, February). Extinction of a body of thought: The neuroscience and phenomenology of where the mind and body end. Paper presented at Broken Minds/Broken Bodies: What Cognitive Science Can Learn from Neuro- Psycho- pathologies. University of Central Florida: Orlando, FL.

Chrysikou, E. G., & Ramey, C. H. (2006, July). The neuroscience and phenomenology of object knowledge in dementia patients. Paper presented at the 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology. Athens, Greece.

Ramey, C. H., & Lee, E. S.† (2006, July). Twenty-five years after ‘Metaphors we live by’: The absence of the topic of metaphor in introductory psychology textbooks. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, Canada. [In R. Sun, N. Miyake, C. Schunn, & S. Lane (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Cognitive Science Society (p. 2593). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.]

Ramey, C. H., Fossi, C.†, & Bridges, S.† (2006, March). High and low tones bias pleasantness judgments of neutral words. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. Atlanta, GA.

Chrysikou, E. G., & Ramey, C. H. (2006). Shaping time: Conceptualizations of time through shape metaphors. In R. Sun, N. Miyake, C. Schunn, & S. Lane (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1121-1126). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Ramey, C. H. (2005, July). Is presentation order a confound for modifier-noun combinations? Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Stresa, Italy. [In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh Annual Cognitive Science Society (p. 2544). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.]

Ramey, C. H. (2005). ‘For the sake of others’: The ‘personal’ ethics of human-android interaction. In Proceedings of CogSci-2005 Workshop: Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science (pp. 137-148). [July 2005, Stresa, Italy]

Ramey, C. H. (2005). The uncanny valley of similarities concerning abortion, baldness, heaps of sand, and humanlike robots. In Proceedings of Views of the Uncanny Valley Workshop: IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (pp. 8-13). [December 2005, Tsukuba, Japan]

Liu, J., Golinkoff, R. M., Piper, K., Chung, H. L., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Ramey, C. H., & Bertenthal, B. I. (2000). Point-light displays illuminate the abstract nature of children’s motion verb representations. In L. R. Gleitman & A. K. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 794-799). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

† notes undergraduate collaborators.

PUBLICATIONS: Conference posters

Chrysikou, E. G., Hanson, G. K.†, Ramey, C. H., Martin, L. E., Choi, I. -Y., Lee, P., & Brooks, W. M. (2017, January). Transcranial direct current stimulation effects on prefrontal cortex in major depressive disorder (MDD) measured by in vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS). Poster presented at the 3rd Biennial International Meeting on Neuromodulation (NYC Neuromodulation), New York, NY.

Ramey, C. H., Fennell, A.†, & Calhoun, E. M.† (2016, April). The effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on the evaluation of everyday moral dilemmas. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. New York, NY.

Ramey, C. H., & Durbin, J. S.† (2015, November). Science, psychology, and free will: An investigation of the relationship between neurocentricism and determinism. Poster presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Ramey, C. H. (2015, August). Morality and reading fiction. Poster presented at the 123rd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. Toronto, Canada.

Ramey, C. H., McCartin, J.†, Lopez, N.†, & Schuberth, E.† (2014, November). An analysis of language use and creativity in Poe’s ‘Masque of the Red Death’ using Google’s Ngram. Poster presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Chrysikou, E. G., Hanson, G. K.†, Ramey, C. H., Thompson, W. J., Martin, L. E., & Ingram, R. E. (2014, April). Measuring the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on frontal cortical excitability with concurrent functional magnetic resonance imaging in Unipolar Depression. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

Ramey, C. H., & Thompson, W. J.† (2013, November). Getting into a character’s head: The role of reading fiction vs. non-fiction in empathy. Poster presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.

Ramey, C. H. (2012, November). Belief in free will, life satisfaction, and the role of cognitive effort. Poster presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.  

Ramey, C. H., & Sauro, C. (2009). Clothing as extended memory. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. Toronto, Canada.

Ramey, C. H., Ward, S. A.†, Melson, B. A.†, & Huebner, A. R.† (2008, May). Analyzing the poetic process in real time. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Psychological Science. Chicago, IL.

Ramey, C. H., Brunette, J.†, & Huebner, A. R.† (2007, February). An empirical analysis of the creativity of Picasso. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. New Orleans, LA.

Ramey, C. H., & Chiavuzzi, N.† (2007, February). An analysis of metaphors in King’s ‘I have a dream.’ Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. New Orleans, LA.

Ramey, C. H., & Chrysikou, E. G. (2006, July). The embodied-embedded approach: The design lessons of the distributed mind in robotics and artificial intelligence. Poster session presented at the 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology. Athens, Greece.

Ramey, C. H., & Melson, B. A.† (2006, May). The poetic qualities of random metaphors. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science. New York, NY.

Ramey, C. H. (2006, March). Categorizing culpability: Juvenile justice and the group average. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. Atlanta, GA.

Ramey, C. H. (2005, August). A piece of psychopathological “Pi”: Using film in class. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC.

Ramey, C. H. (2005, May). The figurativeness of conceptual combinations and the effect of authorial intent. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society. Los Angeles, CA.

Ramey, C. H. (2004, April). Does psychology support child pornography? The assumptions of the abstract and phenomenal world in psychology. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association. Washington, DC.

Ramey, C. H., Reilly, J., & Milsark, G. (2004, October). Confounds in the distinction between high and low imageability words: Phonological, etymological, and morphological differences. Poster session presented at the Academy of Aphasia 42nd Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.

† notes undergraduate collaborators.

PUBLICATIONS: Additional book reviews

Ramey, C. H. (2012, June 27). The consequences of recursion. [Review of the book The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization]. PsycCRITIQUES–APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 57 (No. 225).

Ramey, C. H. (2010, May 26). Psychology’s gaps. [Review of the book Embodied minds in action]. PsycCRITIQUES–APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 55 (No. 21), Article 7.

Ramey, C. H. (2009, August 5). And one pill makes you nothing at all: Neuroethics in America. [Review of the book Happy pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac]. PsycCRITIQUES–APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 54 (No. 31), Article 3.

Ramey, C. H. (2009, February 25). Reflecting on the reflexive nature of consciousness. [Review of the book The reflexive nature of consciousness]. PsycCRITIQUES–APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 54 (No. 8), Article 6.

Ramey, C. H. (2007, November 7). Breathing new life into the psychology of mind. [Review of the book Mind in life: Biology, phenomenology, and the sciences of mind]. PsycCRITIQUES–APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 52 (No. 45), Article 4.

Ramey, C. H. (2007, March 14). What the brain doesn’t do: Reclaiming the mind in psychology. [Review of the book A mind of its own: How your brain distorts and deceives]. PsycCRITIQUES–APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 52 (No. 11), Article 7.

Ramey, C. H. (2006, November 29). Taking politics out of morality. [Review of the book Putting morality back into politics]. PsycCRITIQUES–APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 51 (No. 48), Article 10.

Ramey, C. H. (2006, May 10). The mind of a social being. [Review of the book Interpersonal cognition]. PsycCRITIQUES–APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 51 (No. 19), Article 10.

Ramey, C. H. (2006, April 12). The responsibility of individual scientists: Morality, the self, and society. [Review of the book Inwardness and morality]. PsycCRITIQUES–APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 51 (No. 15), Article 17.

Ramey, C. H. (2006, February 1). A Pygmalion Problem for the science of psychology [Review of the book Symbol use and symbolic representation: Developmental and comparative perspectives]. PsycCRITIQUES–APA Contemporary Psychology Review of Books, 51 (No. 5), Article 15.

PUBLICATIONS: Other

Ramey, C. H. (2006). First day impressions of an introductory psychology course: It’s all in your hands (along with whipped cream). Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning, 3, 10-12.

Ramey, C. H. (2005). ‘Radical’ Skinner. [Letter to] Scientific American Mind, 16(1), 5.