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Davies studies imagination through the use of computer simulations of visual imagination, which attempt to model the results of studies of how humans typically imagine visual scenes. In addition to his work at the
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Davies is also a comic improvisor, playwright and theater director. He helped found the VisionQuest theater company, cited as one of the best new theater troupes in
Atlanta, and for whom he directed
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as a postdoctoral fellow at Queen's
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Davies, J., Goel, A. K., & Nersessian, N. J. (2009). "A Computational Model of Visual
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Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
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Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Science of a Better You (2021).
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