Material anchors for conceptual blends

By Edwin L. Hutchins. 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Cultural Studies, Social Psychology

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From design experiments to formative interventions (2008, background): “Thirdly, even though the second stimulus retains its open-endedness and modifiabil-ity, it also has to take the shape of a relatively stable material representation that can serve as an “anchoring” device (Hutchins, 2005) in the lengthy and discontinuous process of collective concept formation.”
Gestures and conceptual integration in mathematical talk (2009, background): “Mathematics manipulatives, by design or selection, afford only certain kinds of actions and configurations for the user; they offer, “stable representations of constraints” ( Hutchins 2005, p. 1555 ).”
Interaction, External Representation and Sense Making (2009, background): “As long as there is enough stability in the 'material anchors' [Hutchins 05] to ensure a robust projection, the lines and shapes these experts project onto the visible environment meet most criteria of 'entification', though, of course this is a purely empirical claim.”
Mental Models, Visual Reasoning and Interaction in Information Visualization: A Top-down Perspective (2010, background): “One pervasive strategy used by people to achieve such a stability is through the blending of conceptual structures with material anchors [16].”
Thinking with external representations (2010, background): “As long as there is enough stability in the ‘material anchors’ (Hutchins 2005) and enough expertise among the subjects to ensure a robust projection, the lines and shapes these experts project onto the visible environment meet most criteria of ‘entification’, though, of course this is purely an empi”
Extended, Embodied Cognition and Second Language Acquisition (2010, background): “Hutchins (2005), for example, suggests that a line of people waiting for a concert is cognized as a ‘blend’ of the perceptual universal of linear salience, internalized cultural notions like ‘first-come, first-served’ (1559), and real-world structure, i.e. the line itself.”
Thinking with the Body (2010, neutral): “[Hutchins, 05, Kirsh 09, 10].”
Beads for a Plastic Mind: the ‘Blind Man's Stick’ (BMS) Hypothesis and the Active Nature of Material Culture (2008, background): “Despite the evident association between language and exact arithmetic, language lacks in itself the necessary ‘representational stability’ (Hutchins 2005) that would have made possible such a transition.”
Embodied design: constructing means for constructing meaning (2009, background): “…or emergent, actually perceived, mentally simulated, or blended (Barsalou 2008; Collins & Ferguson 1993; Fauconnier & Turner 2002; Goldin 1987; Hutchins 2005; Kosslyn 2005; Presmeg 2006; Saxe 1981; Slobin 1996; Stetsenko 2002; Vygotsky 1978/1930); & mediated by " embodied mathematical tools "…”
The cultural ecosystem of human cognition (2014, background): “I discussed some members of this family in an earlier paper (Hutchins, 2005).”
Blending and coded meaning: Literal and figurative meaning in cognitive semantics (2005, background): “Fauconnier (1997) notes that fictive motion constructions involve a blend between an abstract motion scenario and a static representation of the relationship between two or more objects referred to in the construction (see also Hutchins, 2005).”
Mathematical imagination and embodied cognition (2009, background): “In terms of Hutchins’ (2005) analysis, the edges of the desk functioned as opportunistic “material anchors” that helped Carlene stabilize the events she imagined.”