Cognitive Grounding

Using Activity Domain Theory for Managing Complex Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-192-6.ch006 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 108-124

Author(s):

Lars Taxén

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Science ◽

Crucial Element ◽

Enormous Amount

A crucial element in the ADT is the assumption of congruence or correspondence between observable “traces” of the activity modalities in our environment, and the cognitive constitution of humans. In this chapter, I will provide some arguments in favor of this assumption. Given the enormous amount of research in cognitive science, these arguments can only of a “rhapsodic” character; a first indication of paths to follow in further research.

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Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474438131.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 18-43

Author(s):

Miranda Anderson

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Cognitive Science ◽

Philosophy Of Mind ◽

Distributed Cognition ◽

Art Music ◽

The Body ◽

Cognitive Sciences ◽

Research Context ◽

Renaissance Studies

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a background to current research in medieval and Renaissance studies on topics related to distributed cognition and to consider how the various chapters in this volume represent, reflect and advance work in this area. The volume brings together 14 chapters by international specialists working in the period between the ninth and the seventeenth century in the fields of law, history, drama, literature, art, music, philosophy, science and medicine. The chapters revitalise our reading of medieval and Renaissance works by bringing to bear recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind on the distributed nature of cognition. Together the chapters make evident the ways in which particular notions and practices of distributed cognition emerged from the particular range of sociocultural and technological contexts that existed during this period. This chapter attempts to put these contributions in their wider research context by examining how such topics have been approached by mainstream scholarship, earlier work in the cognitive sciences and by existing applications of distributed cognition theory. It draws out both more general features of distributed cognition and what was distinctive about medieval and Renaissance insights into (and superstitions about) the cognitive roles of the body and environment. Throughout this chapter, I reference the chapters in this volume that provide further information on topics covered or take forward the issues in question. In the concluding section, I turn to a fuller overview of the chapters themselves

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University Mathematics-Laden Education, Competencies and the Fighting of Syllabusitis

10.5772/intechopen.97692 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Tomas Højgaard

Keyword(s):

Subject Matter ◽

Educational Practice ◽

Dimensional Structure ◽

Two Dimensional ◽

Crucial Element ◽

University Mathematics ◽

Mathematical Competencies ◽

Subject Specific ◽

Analytic Core

Syllabusitis is a name for a disease that consists of identifying the mastering of a subject with proficiency related to a syllabus. In this chapter I argue that using a set of mathematical competencies as the hub of mathematics-laden education can be a means to fight syllabusitis. The introduction and thorough exemplification of this idea was the main outcome of the Danish KOM Project. Furthermore, a two-dimensional structuring of the relation between subject specific competencies and subject matter was suggested. As the analytic core of this chapter I argue that such a two-dimensional structure has proven to be a crucial element when attempting to put the competency idea into educational practice, and exemplify how that can be done when it comes to mathematics-laden education at university level.

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Language as a mental travel guide

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19003182 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Charles P. Davis ◽

Gerry T. M. Altmann ◽

Eiling Yee

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Science ◽

Human Cognition ◽

Travel Guide

Abstract Gilead et al.'s approach to human cognition places abstraction and prediction at the heart of “mental travel” under a “representational diversity” perspective that embraces foundational concepts in cognitive science. But, it gives insufficient credit to the possibility that the process of abstraction produces a gradient, and underestimates the importance of a highly influential domain in predictive cognition: language, and related, the emergence of experientially based structure through time.

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Live Confocal Analysis of Fertilization and Early Development

Microscopy and Microanalysis ◽

10.1017/s1431927600031135 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 7 (S2) ◽

pp. 1012-1013

Author(s):

Uyen Tram ◽

William Sullivan

Keyword(s):

Drosophila Melanogaster ◽

Embryonic Development ◽

Real Time ◽

Early Development ◽

Fluorescent Probes ◽

Primary Defect ◽

Fluorescent Analysis ◽

Dynamic Event ◽

Enormous Amount ◽

Fluorescent Studies

Embryonic development is a dynamic event and is best studied in live animals in real time. Much of our knowledge of the early events of embryogenesis, however, comes from immunofluourescent analysis of fixed embryos. While these studies provide an enormous amount of information about the organization of different structures during development, they can give only a static glimpse of a very dynamic event. More recently real-time fluorescent studies of living embryos have become much more routine and have given new insights to how different structures and organelles (chromosomes, centrosomes, cytoskeleton, etc.) are coordinately regulated. This is in large part due to the development of commercially available fluorescent probes, GFP technology, and newly developed sensitive fluorescent microscopes. For example, live confocal fluorescent analysis proved essential in determining the primary defect in mutations that disrupt early nuclear divisions in Drosophila melanogaster. For organisms in which GPF transgenics is not available, fluorescent probes that label DNA, microtubules, and actin are available for microinjection.

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Student Clinicians Self-Evaluating Performance by Reviewing Session Videos and Using a Rubric

Perspectives on Administration and Supervision ◽

10.1044/aas25.2.78 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 78-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Holly C. Smith

Keyword(s):

Clinical Education ◽

Crucial Element ◽

Self Evaluation ◽

Pertinent Information ◽

Evaluation Rubrics

Development of self-evaluation skills in student clinicians is a crucial element of clinical education. This article reviews pertinent information regarding supervisors' responsibilities related to teaching supervisees to self-evaluate. Previously identified methods of facilitating these skills are discussed. The use of video self-analyses paired with self-evaluation rubrics is explored.

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