Situated cognition: clinical reasoning and error are context dependent

Situated Cognition in Diagrammatic Reasoning

Terms uch as intuition are frequently used to describe the experk.nce of immediacy in the comprehension of possible behavior from diagrams or computer interfaces. If this aspect of cognition is operationalized as automatic processing reflecting certain environmental constraints (st a~nements), the effects of intuition can accommodated within a more general model of cognitive difficulty. The ava...

Cognition in Context: Phenomenology, Situated Robotics and the Frame Problem

The frame problem is the difficulty of explaining how non-magical systems think and act in ways that are adaptively sensitive to context-dependent relevance. Influenced centrally by Heideggerian phenomenology, Hubert Dreyfus has argued that the frame problem is, in part, a consequence of the assumption (made by mainstream cognitive science and artificial intelligence) that intelligent behaviour...

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

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...