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Distributed cognition is an approach to cognitive science research that was developed by cognitive anthropologist Edwin Hutchins during the 1990s. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Distributed cognitionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Supporting Cognition With Modern Technology: Distributed Cognition Today and in an AI-Enhanced FutureInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Philosophy of Group PolarizationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A distributed, developmental model of word recognition and naming.Cited 2,594 times
- Go sideways: Extended mind thesisA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Shared intentionalityA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A distributed, developmental model of word recognition and naming.
Large‐scale neurocognitive networks and distributed processing for attention, language, and memory
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Designing Information Technology to Support Distributed Cognition
Distributed cognition, representation, and affordance
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Contextualizing person perception: Distributed social cognition.
Distributed cognition
🆕 Influential since 2022
Supporting Cognition With Modern Technology: Distributed Cognition Today and in an AI-Enhanced Future
Theory of the Multiregional Neocortex: Large-Scale Neural Dynamics and Distributed Cognition
Distributed cognition: Theoretical insights and practical applications to health professions education: AMEE Guide No. 159
Distributed cognition based localization for AR-aided collaborative assembly in industrial environments
Polyneuro risk scores capture widely distributed connectivity patterns of cognition
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Philosophy of Group PolarizationF. Broncano, J. Adam Carter · 2021
- 📕Foundations and Theoretical Perspectives of Distributed Team CognitionMichael McNeese, Eduardo Salas · 2020
- 📕Contemporary ResearchMichael McNeese, Eduardo Salas · 2020
Knowledge SpacesJean-Claude Falmagne · 2013
Cognition in the WildEdwin Hutchins · 1995
Distributed cognition and the willDavid Spurrett, G. Lynn Stephens · 2007
Collective Consciousness and Its DiscontentsMindy T. Fullilove · 2007- 📕Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance CultureMiranda Anderson, Michael Wheeler · 2019
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