Insightful thinking: Cognitive dynamics and material artifacts

Pragmatics and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 549-572

  Fioratou, Evridiki ^a   Cowley, Stephen J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Distributed cognition; Distributed language; Extended mind; Insight; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949130745     PISSN: 09290907     EISSN: 15699943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/pc.17.3.04fio     Document Type: Article

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