Naomi Farmer

Naomi Farmer

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A History of Distributed Cognition

Detail 'Rechnender Greis' painting by Paul Klee, showing a man's face.

Distributed cognition – the idea that cognition or the mind extends across brain, body and world – is not a term that rolls off the tongue. Nevertheless, distributed cognition describes a fundamental aspect of being human. Examples of distributed cognition…