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Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension.

Mirko Farina
- 01 Jan 2010 - 
- Vol. 14
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This article is published in Humana.Mente.The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 787 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cognition & Action (philosophy).

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Cognitive Science of Augmented Intelligence

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Seeking Chances to Extend Human Rationality

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Altered Cerebral Processing of Videos in Children with Motor Dysfunction Suggests Broad Embodiment of Perceptual Cognitive Functions

TL;DR: In this article , the cerebral processing of movies, featuring both goal-directed movements and content without humans, differ between children with congenital motor dysfunction and healthy controls, and the differences between the patients and controls reflect modulation of perceptual-cognitive processing of videos by upper-limb motor dysfunctions not limited to watching-mirroring of motor actions.
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Cold Entropy: Assessing Individual Differences in Cognitive Adaptability during Cold Stress

TL;DR: In this article , an effort aimed to assess variation in stability and flexibility of cognitive performance during cold stress, individual differences in errors, and physiological correlates is presented. But, the results are discussed within the context of cold stress and adaptive behaviors, and cold stress.
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Functionally Extended Cognition

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TL;DR: Action In Perception as discussed by the authors is an e-book with action in perception and perception in interactive sound installations with a focus on action-perception loops through motor cognition, focusing on action perception and interpretation without motor control.
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TL;DR: The authors argued that transcranial cognition may be both a logical and a nomological possibility, but no case has been made for its current existence, and they defend a form of contingent intracranialism about the cognitive.
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TL;DR: Models of Network Growth All networks, whether they are social, technological, or biological, are the result of a growth process, and many continue to grow for prolonged periods of time, continually modifying their connectivity structure throughout their entire existence.
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