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Practical Methodology of Cognitive Tasks Within a Navigational Assessment
Published on: June 1, 2015
Editors' Introduction to Tasks, Tools, and Techniques
Wayne D Gray1, François Osiurak2, Richard Heersmink3
1Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Abstract:
Tasks, tools, and techniques that we perform, use, and acquire, define the elements of expertise which we value as the hallmarks of goal-driven behavior. Somehow, the creation of tools enables us to define new tasks, or is it that the envisioning of new tasks drives us to invent new tools? Or maybe it is that new tools engender new techniques which then result in new tasks? This jumble of issues will be explored and discussed in this diverse collection of papers. Individually, few of the papers are related to each other by topic or by techniques of analysis. Collectively, all focus on tasks performed using tools and discuss the techniques of tool use which enable differences in performance and expertise across individuals, societies, and (even) species.
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