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Situated cognition
Author(s) -
Roth WolffMichael,
Jornet Alfredo
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
wiley interdisciplinary reviews: cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.526
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1939-5086
pISSN - 1939-5078
DOI - 10.1002/wcs.1242
Subject(s) - situated , embodied cognition , situated cognition , cognition , cognitive science , socially distributed cognition , trace (psycholinguistics) , psychology , set (abstract data type) , social cognition , situated learning , cognitive robotics , metacognition , empirical research , cognitive psychology , epistemology , sociology , computer science , developmental psychology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , linguistics , neuroscience , programming language
Following the cognitive revolution, when knowing and learning have come to be theorized in terms of representations stored and processed in the mind, empirical and theoretical developments in very different scholarly disciplines have led to the emergence of the situated cognition hypothesis, which consists of a set of interlocking theses: cognition is embodied, fundamentally social, distributed, enacted, and often works without representations. We trace the historical origins of this hypothesis and discuss the evidential support this hypothesis receives from empirical and modeling studies. We distinguish the question of where cognition is located from the question of what cognition is, because the confounding of the two questions leads to misunderstandings in the sometimes‐ardent debates concerning the situated cognition hypothesis. We conclude with recommendations for interdisciplinary approaches to the nature of cognition. WIREs Cogn Sci 2013, 4:463–478. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1242 This article is categorized under: Psychology > Theory and Methods