Cognition and the Web: Extended, Transactive, or Scaffolded?
In the history of external information systems, the World Wide Web presents a significant change in terms of the accessibility and amount of available information. Constant access to various kinds of online information has consequences for the way we think, act and remember. Philosophers and cogniti...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 85; no. 1; pp. 139 - 165 |
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