Spyridon Orestis Palermos This paper focuses on the hypothesis of the extended cognition (HEC), and in particular, on two interrelated objections to it, namely the coupling-constitution fallacy and the cognitive bloat worry. Briefly, if there is no principled way in which we can decide whether a (cognitive) process depends on extra-neural (or extra-organismic) factors in a causal, or constituti...

The Distributed Cognitive Walkthrough: The Impact of Differences in Cognitive Theory on Usability Evaluation Joel U. Eden Michael E. Atwood, Ph.D. A primary goal of usability related fields is the creation of products and services that conform to or leverage theoretical views of human cognition. Therefore, most usability related methodologies are directly based on theories of human cognition. E...

Abstract According to a shared functionalist view in philosophy of mind, cognitive system, and function thereof, is based on the components organism it realized by which, indeed, play causal role regulating our processes. This led philosophers suggest also that, thus, cognition could be seen as an extended process, whose vehicle can extend not only outside brain but beyond bodily boundaries, di...

Cognition may require access to past events, for example to understand undesirable outcomes or diagnose failures. When cognition is distributed between multiple participants, a particular representational challenge occurs because not all of the participants may have directly experienced the focal event. Language can transcend temporal and physical limitations on event accessibility. We suggest ...

Cognitive science currently offers models of cognition that depart substantively from those of information processing models and classical artificial intelligence, while it embraces methods of inquiry that include case-based, ethnographic, and philosophical methods. To illustrate, five overlapping approaches that constitute departures from classical representational cognitive science are briefl...

This paper integrates archaeology, anthropology and functional brain imaging in an examination of the cognition of words and objects. Based on a review of recent brain imaging experiments, it is argued that in cognition and action, material symbols may be the link between internal representations and objects and words in the world. This principle is applied to the sapient paradox, the slow deve...

The concept of embodied cognition (EC) is not a settled one. A variety of theorists have attempted to outline different approaches and meanings related to this concept. They range from radical embodiment to minimal embodiment, and a number of positions in between. In addition, a variety of approaches to the study of cognition have been closely associated with the notion of embodiment – includin...