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Overview

Edwin Hutchins is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with primary contributions in neuroscience, psychology, and arts and humanities. Within these broader fields, their work is further categorized into subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and the history and philosophy of science.

Their research topics reflect a focus on embodied and extended cognition, action observation and synchronization, as well as philosophy and history of science. These topics appear repeatedly across their body of work, indicating sustained engagement with these areas.

Edwin Hutchins has a record of publications in academic journals, including recent contributions. A notable example is the 2023 paper titled "Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences", published in Cognitive Science. This publication has been cited multiple times, demonstrating its presence within relevant scholarly discussions.

Coauthorship is an aspect of their academic activity, with frequent collaboration involving several researchers. These include:

  • Lucy Suchman
  • Mark Dingemanse
  • Andreas Liesenfeld
  • Marlou Rasenberg
  • Saul Albert

Hutchins' work is also associated with specific scholarly venues, most notably Cognitive Science, where they have multiple publications. Their research encompasses both empirical and theoretical dimensions, intersecting scientific inquiry with historical and philosophical analysis.

Best Publications

  • Cognition in the wild

    Edwin Hutchins

  • Cognition in the Wild.

    Maurice Bloch;Edwin Hutchins

  • Distributed cognition: toward a new foundation for human-computer interaction research

    James Hollan;Edwin Hutchins;David Kirsh

  • How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speeds

    Edwin L. Hutchins

  • Direct manipulation interfaces

    Edwin L. Hutchins;James D. Hollan;Donald A. Norman

  • The social organization of distributed cognition.

    Edwin L. Hutchins

  • Material anchors for conceptual blends

    Edwin Hutchins

  • Cognitive Ecology

    Edwin Hutchins

  • Organizing Work by Adaptation

    Edwin Hutchins

  • Culture and Inference

    Edwin Hutchins

  • Culture and Inference: A Trobriand Case Study

    Edwin Hutchins

  • The cultural ecosystem of human cognition

    Edwin Hutchins

  • Constructing Meaning from Space, Gesture, and Speech

    Edwin Hutchins;Leysia Palen

  • The challenges of partially automated driving

    Stephen M. Casner;Edwin L. Hutchins;Don Norman

  • The Distributed Cognition Perspective on Human Interaction

    Edwin Hutchins

  • How to invent a lexicon: the development of shared symbols in interaction

    Edwin Hutchins;Brian Hazlehurst

  • Comment le cockpit se souvient de ses vitesses

    Edwin Hutchins

  • Learning in the Cultural Process

    Edwin Hutchins;Brian Hazlehurst

  • ChronoViz: a system for supporting navigation of time-coded data

    Adam Fouse;Nadir Weibel;Edwin Hutchins;James D. Hollan

  • I See What You Are Saying: Action as Cognition in fMRI Brain Mapping Practice

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  • The role of cultural practices in the emergence of modern human intelligence

    Edwin Hutchins

  • Error as opportunity: learning in a cooperative task

    Colleen M. Seifert;Edwin L. Hutchins

  • Enculturating the Supersized Mind

    Edwin Hutchins

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald A. Norman
Donald A. Norman University of California, San Diego
Douglas L. Medin
Douglas L. Medin Northwestern University
John R. Anderson
John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Thagard
Paul Thagard University of Waterloo
Elissa L. Newport
Elissa L. Newport Georgetown University
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University
Linda B. Smith
Linda B. Smith Indiana University
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University
Edward E. Smith
Edward E. Smith Columbia University
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker Harvard University

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