Francis F. Steen

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  FRANCIS STEEN is Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at UCLA.He is interested in phenomena relating to mental simulations, such as animal and children's play, fictional narratives, movies, art, and religion.His research projects include collaborative parent-child learning strategies, the cognitive basis of art, and the evolutionary history of popular entertainment.

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  Francis Steen , UCLA Communication Studies Program
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  Francis Steen is Assistant Professor of Communications Studies at UCLA.He is interested in phenomena relating to mental simulations, such as animal and children's play, fictional narratives, movies, art, and religion.His research projects include collaborative parent-child learning strategies, the cognitive basis of art, and the evolutionary history of popular entertainment.
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  Francis Steen, Communication Studies Program, UCLA

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  Cognitive Constructivism: Free Will and Knowledge as Perception - Francis F. Steen, Department of English, UC Santa Barbara.

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  Bill McKelvey, Dario Nardi, Dwight Read, Francis Steen)

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  Francis Steen, a graduate student at the University of California at Santa Barbara, created the site as a personal directory of on-line resources."When I started the site, in the fall of 1996, I had no personal contact with people doing cognitive work outside of U.C.-Santa Barbara," he says."I started it to reach out to an audience I could not be sure even existed."
  
  To develop CogWeb, Mr. Steen began posting abstracts and presentations from special meetings that focused on cognitive approaches to literature.His site now features bibliographies, contributions from discussions of cognitive cultural studies, essays on such topics as artificial intelligence, announcements of conferences, and reviews of new books.
  
  "Collaborative Projects Access," another section on the site, enables scholars around the world to work together on projects that take advantage of their respective areas of expertise -- in artificial intelligence, for instance, as well as in linguistics and cognitive neurosciences.
  
  Creating the Web site soon brought Mr. Steen into contact with other scholars doing similar work, such as Manfred Jahn, a professor of English at the University of Cologne, in Germany.
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  Mr. Steen posted a review of an article by Mr. Jahn entitled "Narrative Frames and a Clinton Joke," an
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  "Material he has sent me subsequently has made my own work move in a new direction," says Mr. Steen.
  
  "The study of human cognition is still very much in its infancy," he adds, "but there are two major ways in which literature can illuminate this work.The first is on the level of discourse modes -- that is, the nature of narrative, of poetry, of drama, of art.The second way is how the imaginative acts of literature tap into the rich resources of human psychology."
  
  On the Web site, Mr. Steen says, "We want to showcase the excellent work that is being done in cognitive approaches to literature."
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  "This is the first major presentation of the cognitive approach at the MLA.," says Mr. Steen."And it will take up a variety of central themes -- universality, the computational machinery of metaphorical thinking, and the neurological basis for the literary."
  
  "Curious academics can come to the site and get an idea about this emerging field," he says.

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  CogWeb: Cognitive Cultural Studies - [Cached Version]
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  It is edited by Francis Steen, acting assistant professor in Communication Studies at UCLA.

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  -- Paleoanthropology (revised 16 December 1999) by Francis F. Steen, Department of English, University of California at Santa Barbara, http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/EP/Paleoanthropology.html

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  Restoration Print Culture: A Multimedia Presentation (Francis Steen, UCSB) -- Primary documents on the Exclusion Crisis, from the 1670s through the Revolution. The Altered State: England, Literature, and the Pub (Steven Earnshaw) -- Selections from a book which "looks at how inns, taverns, alehouses and pubs have appeared in literature from Chaucer to the present day."Includes bibliographies and extracts.Requires frames. Invitation to a Funeral Tour (Molly Brown) -- "A free-style jaunt around Restoration London."Promotional site for book by the author.

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  Eighteenth-Century Resources -- History - [Cached Version]
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  Restoration Print Culture: A Multimedia Presentation (Francis Steen, UCSB) -- Primary documents on the Exclusion Crisis, from the 1670s through the Revolution. The Altered State: England, Literature, and the Pub (Steven Earnshaw) -- Selections from a book which "looks at how inns, taverns, alehouses and pubs have appeared in literature from Chaucer to the present day."Includes bibliographies and extracts.Requires frames. Invitation to a Funeral Tour (Molly Brown) -- "A free-style jaunt around Restoration London."Promotional site for book by the author. Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters (Brycchan Carey, Univ. of London) -- Jekyll's life, an annotated bibliography, selections from Sancho's letters, and links, with more to come.

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  Francis Steen is an a associate professor of Speech and Communication Studies at UCLA, where the intersection of culture and games is a burgeoning topic, prompting a recent conference on "Playing, Gaming, and Learning," co-organized with UCLA Extension's Department of Computer Graphics and Graphic Design.Steen's work analyzes the kind of survival lessons learned through the simulations of "play" behavior, such as the surprisingly common (and gruesome) game parents play when tickling and pretending to devour their young children.Such play simulations, he argues, are ideal for rehearsing "high-stakes interactions," the kind of saber-toothed-tiger-in-the-nursery moments for which ancestral children got only one chance at the correct response.
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  Instead of training for bloodthirsty combat, Steen envisions that travelers to L.A. might more likely use virtual cities to do things like tweak their sightseeing itinerary or pick a place for dinner with their Uncle Phil.

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