Cognitive Offloading

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 676-688

  Risko, Evan F ^a   Gilbert, Sam J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cognitive offloading; distributed cognition; embodied cognition; metacognition

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

COGNITIVE DEMANDS; COGNITIVE OFFLOADING; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; DIVERSE DOMAINS; EMBODIED COGNITION; METACOGNITION; NOCV1; PHYSICAL ACTION; ROTATED IMAGES;

BIOLOGY;

BEHAVIOR; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL CAPACITY; METACOGNITION; SMARTPHONE;

EID: 84996772868     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.07.002     Document Type: Review

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