Cognition distributed : how cognitive technology extends our minds / edited by Itiel E. Dror, Stevan Harnad.

Our species has been a maker and user of tools for over two million years, but "cognitive technology" began with language. Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been "distributed" for at least the two hundred millennia that we have been using speech to interact and collaborate,...

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Other Authors: Dror, Itiel E., Harnad, Stevan R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Series:Benjamins current topics ; v. 16.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cognition Distributed; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; About the Authors; Offloading cognition onto cognitive technology; A framework for thinking about distributed cognition; Distributed cognition; Distributed cognition; Radical changes in cognitive process due to technology; The grounding and sharing of symbols; Collaborative tagging as distributed cognition; Thinking in groups; Distributed learning and mutual adaptation; Distributed cognition, representation, and affordance; Categorization and technology innovation.