@misc{cogprints477, editor = {Z. Pylyshyn}, title = {Interactive coordination processes: How the brain accomplishes what we take for granted in computer languages}, author = {W J. Clancey}, publisher = {Greenwich: Ablex Publishing Corporation}, year = {1998}, pages = {165--190}, journal = {Constraining Cognitive Theories: Issues and Options}, keywords = {neuroscience, interface design, transaction, situated action, situated cognition, perceptual-motor co-ordination, conceptualization, motor schema, memory, human learning, task analysis, cognitive modeling}, url = {http://cogprints.org/477/}, abstract = {An example of sending two messages in an e-mail program reveals a fundamental sequence-construction mechanism by which perceptual categories and motor schema are automatically generalized. By this mechanism, the human brain accomplishes more flexibly what we take for granted in stored-program computers-ordered steps (a sequence of operators in a problem space), variable bindings, conditional statements, and subgoaling.} }