The continuity of mind

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I know the theory. I'm asking for pointers to experimental evidence that it is true. There are competing theories. One of them, which is backed by some empirical evidence, is "Continuity of Mind" by Michael Spivey http://www.amazon.com/Continuity-Mind-Oxford-Psychology/dp/0... Short summary by Spivey: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/CSJarchive/Proceedings/2003/pdfs/3... Another approach, also relying heavily on experiments, is the "Grounded Cognition" thesis, of which Lawrence Barsalou gives a good summary: http://www.psychology.emory.edu/cognition/barsalou/papers/Ba... From the abstract: "Grounded cognition rejects traditional views that cognition is computation on amodal symbols in a modular system, independent of the brain’s modal systems for perception, action, and introspection. Instead, grounded cognition proposes that modal simulations, …

I tried to find a free PDF version of that paper, but no such luck. However, I found an earlier one by Michael Spivey and Rick Dale, ON THE CONTINUITY OF MIND: TOWARD A DYNAMICAL ACCOUNT OF COGNITION (59 pages, < http://www.cogstud.cornell.edu/spiveylab/PLM.pdf> ;).