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“Epistemic actions—physical actions that make mental computation easier, faster, or more reliable—are external actions that an agent performs to change his or her own computation state” as defined by Kirsh and Maglio (1994) in a study done showing how Tetris can be solved by performing actions out in the world than inside of the head. Essentially, epistemic actions are the things that acts or actions performed that aids in reducing the cognitive processing required to complete a task or solve a problem, a way to use the environment to help alleviate extraneous cognitive load. As it is a physical performance that happens in an external environment that aids cognition, it is a concept that has largely been discussed with regards to both embedded cognition, which “refers to the adaptive flexibility of cognitive processes during interaction with the environment” (Pouw, van Gog, and Paas, 2014); and embodied cognition which is a perspective that believes “cognitive processes are deeply rooted in the body’s interactions with the world” (Wilson, 2002). | |||
==Evidence== | ==Evidence== | ||
Revision as of 23:46, 18 November 2022
Overview
“Epistemic actions—physical actions that make mental computation easier, faster, or more reliable—are external actions that an agent performs to change his or her own computation state” as defined by Kirsh and Maglio (1994) in a study done showing how Tetris can be solved by performing actions out in the world than inside of the head. Essentially, epistemic actions are the things that acts or actions performed that aids in reducing the cognitive processing required to complete a task or solve a problem, a way to use the environment to help alleviate extraneous cognitive load. As it is a physical performance that happens in an external environment that aids cognition, it is a concept that has largely been discussed with regards to both embedded cognition, which “refers to the adaptive flexibility of cognitive processes during interaction with the environment” (Pouw, van Gog, and Paas, 2014); and embodied cognition which is a perspective that believes “cognitive processes are deeply rooted in the body’s interactions with the world” (Wilson, 2002).