What is distributed cognition?
Distributed
cognition refers to a process in which cognitive resources are shared socially
in order to
extend
individual cognitive resources or to accomplish
something that an individual agent could not achieve alone.
Human cognitive achievements are based on a process in
which an agent's cognitive processes and the objects and constraints of the
world reciprocally affect each other.
Cognitive processes can be distributed between humans
and machines (physically distributed cognition, Norman, 1993; Perkins, 1993) or
between cognitive agents (socially distributed cognition).
