Topics in Cognitive Science ( IF 3.265 ) Pub Date : 2022-04-10 , DOI: 10.1111/tops.12611 Andrea Bender 1
This issue of Topics in Cognitive Science offers everyday activities, an argument for the transformative power of cognitive tools, and some of the best papers of last year's CogSci conference.
Why bother about how people tackle tasks such as dressing, setting the table, or cleaning up? Because what appears to be trivial actually turns out to be ever so challenging when described and analyzed in terms of cognitive requirements and integration. For this month's lead topic, Holger Schultheis (University of Bremen, Germany) and Rick Cooper (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) assembled eight papers that address this challenge. Spanning a broad range of perspectives—from the neural mechanisms that underlie the abilities involved, to lessons from and for robotics, to philosophical implications—these papers unpack some of the complexity inherent in everyday activities. Introducing and summarizing their topic, the editors argue why understanding everyday activities is essential both for realizing artificial assistance systems and for cognitive science itself, thereby rendering this topic a field of study in its own right, one of prime interest to cognitive scientists, and a potential condensation point for focused interdisciplinary collaboration (Schultheis & Cooper, 2022).
Second in this issue is an article that completes last year's topic on Tasks, Tools and Techniques (edited by Gray, Osiurak, & Heersmink, 2021). In “Tools of Enculturation,” philosophers Richard Menary and Alexander Gillett argue that cognitive tools not only temporarily scaffold, but profoundly transform our cognitive abilities. Illustrated with the example of spatial navigation and wayfinding, they describe how enculturation leads to a “deep integration between brain, body, and cognitive tools.”
- Eeshan Hasan, Quentin Eichbaum, Adam C. Seegmiller, Charles Stratton, and Jennifer S. Trueblood (Vanderbilt University & Vanderbilt University Medical Center), who received the Computational Modeling Prize for Applied Cognition for their paper “Improving medical image decision-making by leveraging metacognitive processes and representational similarity.”
- Claire Bergey, Zoe Marshall, Simon DeDeo, and Daniel Yurovsky (University of Chicago/Carnegie Mellon University/Santa Fe Institute), who received the Computational Modeling Prize for Language for their paper “Learning communicative acts in children's conversations: A hidden topic Markov model analysis of the CHILDES corpora.”
- V. N. Vimal Rao, Jeffrey K. Bye, and Sashank Varma (University of Minnesota & Georgia Institute of Technology, respectively), who received one of the Disciplinary Diversity & Integration Awards in Cognitive Science for their paper “Categorical perception of p-values.”
The topiCS team wishes to take this opportunity to congratulate all recipients of CSS prizes for their awards and for the outstanding work that earned them these awards!
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中文翻译：
topicCS 简介第 14 卷第 2 期
本期《认知科学主题》提供了日常活动、认知工具变革力量的论证以及去年 CogSci 会议的一些最佳论文。
为什么要关心人们如何处理诸如穿衣、摆餐具或打扫卫生等任务呢？因为当根据认知要求和整合来描述和分析时，看似微不足道的事情实际上变得非常具有挑战性。对于本月的主要主题，Holger Schultheis（德国不莱梅大学）和 Rick Cooper（英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院）收集了八篇论文来应对这一挑战。这些论文涵盖了广泛的视角——从所涉及的能力背后的神经机制，到机器人技术的教训，再到哲学含义——揭示了日常活动中固有的一些复杂性。在介绍和总结他们的主题时，编辑们认为为什么理解日常活动对于实现人工辅助系统和认知科学本身都至关重要，从而使该主题本身成为一个研究领域，是认知科学家最感兴趣的领域之一，也是认知科学的一个重要领域。重点跨学科合作的潜在凝聚点（Schultheis & Cooper，2022）。
本期的第二篇文章完成了去年关于任务、工具和技术的主题（由 Gray、Osiurak 和 Heersmink 编辑，2021 年）。哲学家理查德·梅纳里（Richard Menary）和亚历山大·吉列特（Alexander Gillett）在《文化适应工具》一书中认为，认知工具不仅可以暂时支撑我们的认知能力，而且可以深刻地改变我们的认知能力。他们以空间导航和寻路为例，描述了文化适应如何导致“大脑、身体和认知工具之间的深度整合”。
- Eeshan Hasan、Quentin Eichbaum、Adam C. Seegmiller、Charles Stratton 和 Jennifer S. Trueblood（范德比尔特大学和范德比尔特大学医学中心）因其论文“通过利用元认知过程和表征相似性。”
- Claire Bergey、Zoe Marshall、Simon DeDeo 和 Daniel Yurovsky（芝加哥大学/卡内基梅隆大学/圣达菲研究所）因论文“学习儿童对话中的交际行为：隐藏主题马尔可夫模型”而获得语言计算建模奖CHILDES 语料库的分析。”
- VN Vimal Rao、Jeffrey K. Bye 和 Sashank Varma（分别为明尼苏达大学和佐治亚理工学院），因其论文“p 值的分类感知”而获得认知科学学科多样性与整合奖之一。
topicCS团队希望借此机会祝贺所有 CSS 奖获得者以及为他们赢得这些奖项的杰出工作！
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