The ease with which humans usually perform everyday activities masks their inherit complexity. Tasks such as setting a table prior to a meal or preparing a hot beverage require the coordination of several cognitive abilities. At the same time, many everyday activities are simple enough to afford investigation in controlled lab settings. One main goal of this issue is to raise awareness of everyday activities as a topic and a field of study in its own right, which allows investigating (a) selected cognitive abilities with high ecological validity and (b) the interplay and integration of key cognitive abilities. To this end, this topic consists of eight papers that span different aspects of everyday activities, ranging from neuroscience through philosophical considerations and implications to lessons from robotics.

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日常活动

人类通常进行日常活动的轻松程度掩盖了他们固有的复杂性。诸如在饭前摆好餐桌或准备热饮等任务需要多种认知能力的协调。同时，许多日常活动都很简单，可以在受控实验室环境中进行调查。这个问题的一个主要目标是提高人们对日常活动作为一个主题和一个研究领域本身的认识，这允许调查（a）具有高生态有效性的选定认知能力和（b）关键认知的相互作用和整合能力。为此，该主题由八篇论文组成，涵盖日常活动的不同方面，从神经科学到哲学思考和对机器人技术的启示。