Concepts of Cognition and Consciousness: four voices

<body> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center"> This page requires frames. <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewArticle/377">Click here</a> for the non-frames version. <p>Non-frames version <a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/viewArticle/377">available</a>.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <h1>Concepts of Cognition and Consciousness: four voices</h1> <h2><i>Bonnie Nardi</i></h2> <h3>Australasian Journal of Information Systems</h3> <h4>Abstract</h4> <div>This paper considers theories of cognition and consciousness in four traditions: neuroscience, cognitive science, activity theory and the distributed cognition approach. It is most concerned with social theories of consciousness—activity theory and distributed cognition—but briefly considers biological and computational models as a foil or backdrop against which the social theories stand out more clearly.</div> </body>