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    "pk": 25791,
    "title": "Insight and Cognitive Ecosystems",
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    "abstract": "Outside the cognitive psychologist’s laboratory, problem\nsolving is an activity that takes place in a rich web of\ninteractions involving people and artifacts. Through this\ninteractivity, a reasoner’s comprehension of the problem\nemerges from a coalition of internal and external\nresources. In the experiment presented here, interactivity\nwas explored under laboratory conditions. Participants\nwere invited to solve an insight problem, the so-called\n17 Animals problem. The solution to this problem\ninvolves the spatial arrangements of sets. The problem\nmasquerades as an arithmetic problem, which creates a\ndifficult impasse to overcome. Problem solving took\nplace in two different ecosystems: in one, participants\nwere given a stylus and an electronic tablet to sketch out\na model of the solution; in a second, participants could\ninteract with artifacts that corresponded to the problem’s\nphysical constituent features to build a model of the\nsolution. Participants in the sketch group were never\nable to break the impasse, that is to abandon their\ninterpretation of the problem as one requiring an\narithmetic solution. Participants in the model building\ngroup were more likely to break the impasse and\ndiscover a productive action trajectory that helped them\nidentify a plausible solution. Video evidence revealed\nsubstantial differences in the manner with which\nparticipants ‘thought’ about the problem as a function of\nthe type of interactivity afforded by the two cognitive\necosystems. Insight was enacted through model building\nactivity.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "problem solving"
        },
        {
            "word": "InSight"
        },
        {
            "word": "distributed\ncognition"
        },
        {
            "word": "enactivism"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3991f2vx",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Frederic",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Vallee-Tourangeau",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Kingston University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Sune",
            "middle_name": "Vork",
            "last_name": "Steffensen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Southern Denmark",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Gaelle",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Vallee-Tourangeau",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Kingston University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Angeliki",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Makri",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Kingston University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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