Cognitive Ecology

By Edwin L. Hutchins. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2010

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Essentials of a Theory of Language Cognition (2019, background): “Hutchins (2010) presents a very readable and succinct Topics in Cognitive Science update of Cognitive Ecology as the study of “the web of mutual dependence among the elements of a cognitive ecosystem” (p. 705).”
The cultural ecosystem of human cognition (2014, background): “In this article, I hope to shift the focus to the properties of the cognitive ecosystem in which these practices exist (Hutchins, 2010a, 2010b).”
The psychology of memory, extended cognition, and socially distributed remembering (2010, background): “Complementarity thus directs our attention to rich, full, and often idiosyncratic cognitive ecologies (Kirsh 2006; Hutchins 2010a, b; Tribble and Keene 2010) in which " the computational power and expertise is spread across a heterogeneous assembly of brains, bodies, artifacts, and other external…”
The effect of learning and search images on predator–prey interactions (2009, background): “Such studies are central to the developing field of cognitive ecology, which focuses on the effects of information processing and decision making on animal fitness (Dukas 1998).”
Thinking as “Thinging”: Psychology With Things (2019, background): “There is a long ancestry of related ideas from different disciplines (Bateson, 1973; Clark, 1997; Gallagher, 2017; Hutchins, 2010; Ingold, 2013; Varela, Thompson, & Rosch, 1991).”