| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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Benjamins current topics ; v. 16
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Benjamins current topics ; v. 16.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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: Adv. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cognition.
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Cognition. |
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Cognitive science.
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Cognitive science. |
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Artificial intelligence.
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Artificial intelligence. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dror, Itiel E.
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Harnad, Stevan R.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cognition distributed. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008 (DLC) 2008044247 |
| ISBN |
9789027222466 (Cloth) |
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9027222460 (Cloth) |
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9789027289643 (electronic book) |
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9027289646 (electronic book) |
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1282104675 |
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9781282104679 |
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