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Edwin Hutchins

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Edwin Hutchins, born in 1948, is an American cognitive scientist, a professor and former department head of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. He is one of the main developers of distributed cognition, an approach to cognitive science research that he developed as a cognitive anthropologist during the 1990s. Hutchins argues that mental representations are distributed across sociocultural systems, including external artifacts, work teams and cultural systems for interpreting reality, rather than sitting only within the individual brain.

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Edwin Hutchins (born 1948) is an American cognitive scientist.
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Hutchins is one of the main developers of distributed cognition.
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Distributed cognition is an approach to cognitive science research that was developed by cognitive anthropologist Edwin Hutchins during the 1990s.
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