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The socially extended mind

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Gallagher, Shaun·2013·Cognitive Systems Research

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  • Technologies, artifacts, and social partners can become constitutive elements of human cognitive ecologies.

    “Decades of research have already shown that technologies, artifacts, and social partners can become constitutive elements of human cognitive ecologies [8,24,37].”

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  • Cognition is embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended.

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  • In the 4E view, meaning arises not from internal representations alone, but through sensorimotor coupling with the environment, affordance-responsiveness, and norm-governed interaction with others.

    “In the 4E view, meaning arises not from internal representations alone, but through sensorimotor coupling with the environment, affordance-responsiveness, and norm-governed interaction with others [24,48].”

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Authors
Gallagher, S.
Affiliations
University of Hertfordshire (GB)
Corresponding author
Gallagher, Shaun
Venue
Cognitive Systems Research
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-12
Volume
25-26
Pages
4-12
ISSN
1389-0417 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2114814877
Cited by
378
References
37
Citations by year
2026: 24 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 61 · 2019: 56 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 1
FWCI
10.19
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cognitive Systems Research (publishedVersion)
  • University of Hertfordshire Research Archive (University of Hertfordshire) (submittedVersion)
  • Research Online (University of Wollongong) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Cybernetics and Technology in Society
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Keywords
extended mind, social cognition, enactive cognition, social affordances, institutional framework, critical social theory

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