Imagination and situated cognition

Situated Actions and Cognition

The paper addresses the concept of cognition starting from the role of a sensor basis in the design of robots. The field of robotics forces the discussion to be pragmatic which is considered to be advantageous. In addition, we introduce the notion of cognitive basis in order to discuss the cognitive abilities of an artif icial creature. As cognition cannot be ful ly separated from action and ac...

Embodied and Situated Cognition

Mathematical imagination and embodied cognition

The goal of this paper is to explore qualities of mathematical imagination in light of a classroom episode. It is based on the analysis of a classroom interaction in a high school Algebra class. We examine a sequence of nine utterances enacted by one of the students whom we call Carlene. Through these utterances Carlene illustrates, in our view, two phenomena: (1) juxtaposing displacements, and...

Everyday Cognition and Situated Learning

Everyday cognition and situated learning investigates learning as an essentially social phenomena that takes place at the juncture of everyday interactions. These learning interactions are generated by the social relations, cultural history, and particular artifacts and physical dimensions of the learning environment. Brent Wilson and Karen Myers (2000) point out that there are distinct advanta...

General Situated Cognition

I develop a theory of General Situated Cognition. The project has several goals: (1) to unify existing foundational approaches to cognition; (2) to characterize the function of cognition in autonomous systems and suggest a general (meta-)framework for cognitive architecture; (3) to provide su ciency conditions and a classi cation of representation mechanisms in natural and arti cial cognitive s...