Cognition Distributed
How cognitive technology extends our minds
Editors
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, allowing us to do collectively far more than any of us could have done individually. The invention of writing six millennia ago and print six centuries ago has distributed cognition still more widely and quickly, among people as well as their texts. But in recent decades something radically new has been happening: Advanced cognitive technologies, especially computers and the Worldwide Web, are beginning to redistribute cognition in unprecedented ways, not only among people and static texts, but among people and dynamical machines. This not only makes possible new forms of human collaboration, but new forms of cognition. This book examines the nature and prospects of distributed cognition, providing a conceptual framework for understanding it, and showcasing case studies of its development. This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of Pragmatics & Cognition (14:2, 2006).
[Benjamins Current Topics, 16] 2008. xiii, 258 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 19 December 2008
Published online on 19 December 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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About the authors | pp. ix–xiii
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Introduction
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Offloading cognition onto cognitive technologyItiel E. Dror and Stevan Harnad | pp. 1–23
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Articles
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A framework for thinking about distributed cognitionPierre Poirier and Guillaume Chicoisne | pp. 25–43
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Distributed cognition: Domains and dimensionsJohn Sutton | pp. 45–56
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Distributed cognition: A methodological noteDavid Kirsh | pp. 57–69
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Radical changes in cognitive process due to technology: A jaundiced viewArthur M. Glenberg | pp. 71–82
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The grounding and sharing of symbolsAngelo Cangelosi | pp. 83–92
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Collaborative tagging as distributed cognitionLuc Steels | pp. 93–97
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Thinking in groupsTodd M. Gureckis and Robert L. Goldstone | pp. 99–116
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Distributed learning and mutual adaptationDaniel L. Schwartz and Taylor Martin | pp. 117–135
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Distributed cognition, representation, and affordanceJiajie Zhang and Vimla L. Patel | pp. 137–144
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Categorization and technology innovationJeffrey M. Stibel | pp. 145–147
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Crime scene investigation as distributed cognitionChris Baber, Paul Smith, James Cross, John E. Hunter and Richard McMaster | pp. 159–184
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Web Search engines and distributed assessment systemsChristophe Heintz | pp. 185–206
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Speech transformation solutionsDimitri Kanevsky, Sara Basson, Alexander Faisman, Leonid Rachevsky, Alex Zlatsin and Sarah Conrod | pp. 207–235
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Computer-aided translation as a distributed cognitive taskBarbara Dragsted | pp. 237–256
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Index | pp. 257–258
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Subjects
Linguistics
Psychology
Main BIC Subject
JMR: Cognition & cognitive psychology
Main BISAC Subject
PSY008000: PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition