Rethinking Situatedness: Environment Structure in the Time of the Common Code

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 171-207

  Chandrasekharan, Sanjay ^a   Osbeck, Lisa ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

common coding; construction; direct perception; environment structure; representation; situatedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951607377     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354309345636     Document Type: Article

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