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Of ants and academics: The computational power of external representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

Jon Oberlander
Jon Oberlander
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Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LW ScotlandJ.Oberlander@ed.ac.uk www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/people/jon/
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Abstract

Clark & Thornton speculate that intervening in the real world might be a way of transforming type-2 problems into type-1, but they state that they are not aware of any definite cases. It is argued that the active construction of external representations often performs exactly this function, and that recoding via the real world is therefore common, if not ubiquitous.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 78 - 79
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© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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