See Syllabus to coordinate readings with lectures.

Required Readings for Midterm 1:

Hutchins, E. (2010a). Cognitive Ecology. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2: 705-715

Kirsh, D. (2009). Interaction, external representation and sense making. 31st Annual Conf of Cognitive Science Society

Norman (1994). Things that make us smart. Chapt 3: The Power of Representation. NY: Perseus Books

Hutchins, E. (2010b) Enaction, imagination & insight. In J. Steward, O. Gapenne & E. A. Di Paolo (Eds) Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science. pp: 387-424, MIT Press.

Williams, R.F. (2006). Using cognitive ethnography to study instruction. Prodeedings of the 7th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.


Required Readings for Midterm 2:

deBarbaro, K., Johnson, C.M.& Deak, G.O. (2013). Twelve month "social revolution" emerges from mother-infant sensorimotor coordination: A longitudinal study. Human Development 56: 223-248. DOI: 10.1159/000351313

Yu, C., Smith, L. B. & Pereira, A. F. (2008). Grounding word learning in multimodal sensorimotor interaction. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V.M. Sloutsky (Eds.) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1017-1022). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Johnson, C.M. (2002). The Vygotskian advantage in cognitive modeling: Participation precedes and thus prefigures understanding. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 25: 628-629.

Goodwin, C. (2013). The cooperative, transformative organization of human action & knowledge. Journal of Pragmatics 46 : 8-23.


Readings for Final Project:

Heath, C. & Hindmarsh (2000). Configuring action in objects: From mutual space to media space. In Mind, Culture and Activity, 7, 81-104.



Recommended Readings:

Cole, M.. (1985). The zone of proximal development: where culture and cognition create each other. In J. Wertsch (Ed) Culture, communication & cognition: Vygotskian perspectives:pp: 146-161.

Enfield, N. (2005). The body as a cognitive artifact in kinship representations. Current Anthropology, 46:51-81.

Goodwin, C. (2000). Gesture, aphasia and interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 32: 1489-1522.

Goodwin, C. (1994). Professional vision. American Anthropologist, 96:606-633.

Hutchins, E. (1995). How a cockpit remembers its speeds. Cognitive Science, 19:265-288.

Hutchins, E.. (2005). Material anchors for conceptual blends. Journal of Pragmatics, 37:1555-1577.

Johnson, C.M. (2010). Observing cognitive complexity in primates and cetaceans. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 23:587-624.

Kirsh, D. (1994). On distinguishing epistemic from pragmatic action. Cognitive Science, 18:513-549.

Kirsh, D. (1995). The intelligent use of space. Artificial Intelligence, 73:31-68.

Shepard, R. (1994). Perceptual cognitive universals as reflections of the world. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1:2-28.