Overview
- Explores the situated and systemic nature of thinking, creativity and decision making
- Presents interactivity as a key driver of cognition
- Extends the computational basis of distributed cognition into molecular systems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This new edition continues to demonstrate how a systemic perspective casts a productive light on thinking in applied domains such as crime scene analysis, the use of information technology in construction, and computer-meditated trusts and presents new studies on the cognitive ecology of the web, multi-scalar temporal and organisational cognition and the importance of interactive material engagement in digital architecture. Authors use various scales of the systemic viewpoint to illustrate how bodies and artefacts shape thinking, but in all cases the experience of materiality is meshed with activity that involves the world beyond the body.
Cognition Beyond the Brain is a valuable reference for researchers, practitioners and graduate students within the fields of Computer Science, Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stephen J.Cowley is Professor of Organisational Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark. He has developed ways of integrating the study of language, cognition and the sociocultural world and in 2012 he took up his current position in Denmark where he is concerned with how organisations rely on cognitive resources beyond the body. He founded the Distributed Language Group, a community who aims to naturalise language by focusing on how directed, dialogical activity imbues human intelligence with a collective dimension that also makes literacy possible.
Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau is Professor of Psychology and Director of Postgraduate Research at Kingston University, UK. He holds a BA from McGill University, an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD from McGill University. His most recent research explores the role of interactivity in the genesis of insight.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cognition Beyond the Brain
Book Subtitle: Computation, Interactivity and Human Artifice
Editors: Stephen J. Cowley, Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49115-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49114-1Published: 05 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84086-4Published: 20 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49115-8Published: 28 March 2017
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: VIII, 342
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Linguistics