Distributed cognition

Sutton, John

doi:10.1075/pc.14.2.05sut

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“…From the perspective of distributed cognition, representations are not only external products that make internal thoughts visible, but also functional elements of the reasoning system [23]. Distributed cognition theory explains that cognition can be spread across the cognitive system during complex cognitive activities [24][25][26][27]. Hutchins [25] argued that all cognitive processes include distributed processes at different scales.…”

Section: Visualization As a Cognitive Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visual Representation Construction for Collective Reasoning in Elementary Science Classrooms

2021

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There has been a recent increase in research interest in the ways that visual representation is used to facilitate students’ understanding in science classrooms. Yet while many studies have explored individual students’ drawing, few studies have looked into drawing as a collective tool to engage students in thinking and talking together in science classrooms. This study employed a case study approach to understand some of the possibilities for visual representation construction as a collective reasoning tool. By examining two cases of visual representation construction during classroom talk in two elementary science classrooms, this study demonstrates how teachers use visual representation as an instructional strategy, and how visualization engages students’ reasoning, meaning making, and social interactions. We selected two cases that demonstrate the emergence of the teacher’s and students’ drawing activities and analyzed each with a focus on the interactions that occur during the construction of visual representation and how this interaction promotes scientific reasoning and meaning making. For the case analysis, three researchers reviewed the video cases separately several times, and then collectively developed in-depth discussion to bring forth possible themes. The findings include (a) that there were common grounds of visual representation established for collective reasoning, and (b) that visual representations expanded knowledge and reasoning from the individual to social level, thus playing a critical role in students’ reasoning and knowledge building during classroom talk. Pedagogical questions and reflection are discussed for further research on visualization as a cognitive and social tool in classrooms.

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Section: Visualization As a Cognitive Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visual Representation Construction for Collective Reasoning in Elementary Science Classrooms

2021

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“…On this view, individual cognitive tasks are transformed such that day-to-day cognition is best understood by studying individuals coupled with external resources in their natural environments (Hutchins, 1995). In the case of memory, we rely on people and objects in our environment to scaffold our individual memories (Sutton, 2006; Sutton et al, 2010). Like Wegner’s theory, distributed cognition predicts cognitive interdependence, transformation, and emergence.…”

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Transactive Memory in Small, Intimate Groups: More Than the Sum of Their Parts

Barnier

Klein

Harris

2017

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Thirty years after social psychologist, Daniel Wegner, pitched a new approach to the study of individual and group behavior, his theory of transactive memory has inspired rich literatures on the cognitive and social lives of small groups, especially in social and organizational domains. We revisit Wegner's original conceptualization of transactive memory as a feature of long-standing intimate groups, such as romantic couples and other family and friendship groups. We sketch the spread and success of Wegner's theory across social, organizational, cognitive, and educational domains, noting particular spaces where a renewed focus on intimate groups could add to our vision of transactive memory systems. We review recent interdisciplinary research on couples as socially distributed cognitive systems, which combines influential philosophical views of distributed cognition and the burgeoning experimental memory literature on collaborative recall. We then discuss two core conceptual and methodological challenges of Wegner's theorizing revealed by intimate and other groups: navigating between memory units, or levels of analysis, and measuring genuine emergence in transactive memory systems. Finally, we suggest an interdisciplinary framework and recommendations for future research on transactive memory in small groups.

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“…When we integrate our biological capacities with these external resources, we thus extend – in a very literal sense – our endogenous function and become part of an increasingly complex, functionally and spatially expanded cognitive system (cf. Sutton, 2006; Wilson and Clark, 2009). We access new and more powerful forms of cognition.…”

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Affordances and the musically extended mind

2014

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I defend a model of the musically extended mind. I consider how acts of “musicking” grant access to novel emotional experiences otherwise inaccessible. First, I discuss the idea of “musical affordances” and specify both what musical affordances are and how they invite different forms of entrainment. Next, I argue that musical affordances – via soliciting different forms of entrainment – enhance the functionality of various endogenous, emotion-granting regulative processes, drawing novel experiences out of us with an expanded complexity and phenomenal character. I argue that music therefore ought to be thought of as part of the vehicle needed to realize these emotional experiences. I appeal to different sources of empirical work to develop this idea.

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Distributed cognition

Cited by 83 publications

References 35 publications

Visual Representation Construction for Collective Reasoning in Elementary Science Classrooms

Visual Representation Construction for Collective Reasoning in Elementary Science Classrooms

Transactive Memory in Small, Intimate Groups: More Than the Sum of Their Parts

Affordances and the musically extended mind

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