2016
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-016-0759-4
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Identifying and individuating cognitive systems: a task-based distributed cognition alternative to agent-based extended cognition

Abstract: This article argues for a task-based approach to identifying and individuating cognitive systems. The agent-based extended cognition approach faces a problem of cognitive bloat and has difficulty accommodating both sub-individual cognitive systems (''scaling down'') and some supra-individual cognitive systems (''scaling up''). The standard distributed cognition approach can accommodate a wider variety of supra-individual systems but likewise has difficulties with sub-individual systems and faces the problem of… Show more

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“…This view of the temporal distribution of meaning has consequences for the notion of distributed cognitive systems (Zhang & Patel 2006;Hutchins 2014;Davies & Michaelian 2016), as it entails a "semiotization" of the discussion about distribution of cognition (see Atã and Queiroz, in press). Hutchins (2014) has characterized distributed cognition as an emergentist approach to cognition.…”
Section: Semiosis Is Temporally Distributedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This view of the temporal distribution of meaning has consequences for the notion of distributed cognitive systems (Zhang & Patel 2006;Hutchins 2014;Davies & Michaelian 2016), as it entails a "semiotization" of the discussion about distribution of cognition (see Atã and Queiroz, in press). Hutchins (2014) has characterized distributed cognition as an emergentist approach to cognition.…”
Section: Semiosis Is Temporally Distributedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This concept assumes that learners' cognitions are distributed across human minds, artifacts, and groups of people as part of a larger cognitive system (Zhang & Patel, 2006). Cognitive processes are observed both inside and outside of human minds (Davies & Michaelian, 2016). Cognitive processing takes place when humans collectively use the distributed cognition that resides in external cognitive resources, such as other humans, symbolic media, the environment, and artifacts (Perkins, 1997).…”
Section: Theory Of Distributed Cognitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, the extension of cognition does not necessarily imply a perpetual state of individual cognition (Perkins, 1997). Rather, the theory of distributed cognition poses that cognition is amplified during the use of a technology in a particular cognitive task (Davies & Michaelian, 2016). Meaningful learning requires learners to plan and organize behaviors to accomplish a cognitive task, and this process is referred to as executive functioning (Landry, Smith, & Swank, 2009).…”
Section: Theory Of Distributed Cognitionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…O que tem sido chamado de paradigma 4E, em ciência cognitiva, desloca o foco de investigação dos indivíduos, seus corpos e cérebros, para sistemas cognitivos distribuídos (SCDs) (HUTCHINS, 1995a;SPURRET, 2003;SUTTON, 2010;MICHAELIAN, 2016). Tais sistemas são constituídos não apenas por organismos dotados de agenciamento individual, mas também por artefatos e estruturas ambientais.…”
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