2006/09/21 by Jiajie Zhang, Vimla L. Patel · 1 citation
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Embodied and Extended Cognition #Child and Animal Learning Development #Motor Control and Adaptation #Affordance #Representation (politics) #Cognition #Computer science #Socially distributed cognition #Affect (linguistics) #Cognitive science #Cognitive psychology #Human–computer interaction #Psychology #Communication
paper · doi:10.1075/pc.14.2.12zha
openalex publication_date 2006/09/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/18
This article describes a representation-based framework of distributed cognition. This framework considers distributed cognition as a cognitive system whose structures and processes are distributed between internal and external representations, across a group of individuals, and across space and time. The major issue for distributed research, under this framework, are the distribution, transformation, and propagation of information across the components of the distributed cognitive system and how they affect the performance of the system as a whole. To demonstrate the value of this representation-based approach, the framework was used to describe and explain an important, challenging, and controversial issue — the concept of affordance.