Mapping systemic resources in problem solving

Where the touching is touched: The role of haptic attentive unity in the dialogue between maker and material

“…Mind and matter form a unity (Gosden and Malafouris, 2015;Malafouris, et al, 2021). These are ideas that draw upon and resonate with new enactive-ecological trends in embodied cognitive science (Baber, 2021;Chemero, 2009;Clark, 1997;Fuchs, 2018;Gallagher, 2017;Glȃveanu, 2013;Newen et al, 2018;Rietveld and Kiverstein, 2014;Vallée-Tourangeau and Vallée-Tourangeau, 2020), post phenomenology (Ihde, 1990;Ihde and Malafouris, 2019), and the anthropology of distributed cognition and creativity (Goodwin 1994;Hutchins 2010;Ingold 2011Ingold , 2013.…”

Insight as discovery

“…It is tempting to think that extending the cognitive system must necessarily strengthen it. This is often the case where the system acts as a simple offload but it is not a necessary quality of the extended mind (Wilson, 2014) and indeed as the research programme into materially and socially extended cognition matures, it is becoming clear that there is not a straightforward additive relationship which can be easily parsed through experimental study (see Vallée-Tourangeau & Vallée-Tourangeau, 2020b).…”

“…Thus, to study first order problem solving in a laboratory environment, it is important to design problem solving tasks that afford the interaction with a physical and malleable problem presentation. First order problem solving tasks can be instrumentalized to provide data that reveals the physical traces of problem solving, to map the genesis of a new idea (Vallée-Tourangeau & Vallée-Tourangeau, 2020b). Failing to record and code with some precision how and to what degree participants interact with the physical model of the problem will not reveal the interim proto solutions that are reified physically; the origin of a new idea, in this instance the solution to a problem, will remain inaccessible (for an example, see Chuderski, Jastrzębski, & Kucwaj, 2020).…”

The Promotion of Originality Perceived in Two Multimodal Storytelling Applications: Storybird and Scratch

“…More of these phases would depend more on working memory. Vallée Tourangeau and Vallée Tourangeau [22] explained that problem solving is part of higher cognition: thought uses communicating procedures based on a widespread assortment of external stratagems covering multiple time scales. For this reason, they recommended adopting an interactivist perspective to describe how these stratagems are dynamically shaped in time and space.…”

“…In this study, the variables of the character's point of view, empathy with the character [56], or selflocalization [18] did not appear, although mental flexibility did. The variables time and space did not appear explicitly either [22].…”