External Working Memory and the Amount of Distributed Cognition

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1954-1959

  Maeda, Naoki ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

external working memory; paradox of working memory; spractions

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ACTIVITIES; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; EXTERNAL FEATURES; EXTERNAL WORKING MEMORY; LEGO BLOCK; MEMORY LOAD; PARADOX OF WORKING MEMORY; SPRACTION; WORKING MEMORY;

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