creators_name: Clancey, W J.
editors_name: Pylyshyn, Z.
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 1998-06-24
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:59
metadata_visibility: show
title: Interactive coordination processes: How the brain accomplishes what we take for granted in computer languages
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: comp-neuro-sci
subjects: comp-sci-neural-nets
subjects: dev-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: neuroscience, interface design, transaction, situated action, situated cognition, perceptual-motor co-ordination, conceptualization, motor schema, memory, human learning, task analysis, cognitive modeling
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.
date: 1998
date_type: published
publication: Constraining Cognitive Theories: Issues and Options
publisher: Greenwich: Ablex Publishing Corporation
pagerange: 165-190
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Clancey, W J.  (1998) Interactive coordination processes: How the brain accomplishes what we take for granted in computer languages.  [Book Chapter]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/477/1/148.htm