Sociocognitive Perspectives on Representation.

Jacob, Elin K.; Shaw, Debora

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ERIC Number: EJ610154

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Publication Date: 1998

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Sociocognitive Perspectives on Representation.

Jacob, Elin K.; Shaw, Debora

Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), v33 p131-85 1998

Discusses research dealing with the cognitive aspects of formal systems of knowledge representation. Highlights include the origins and theoretical foundations of the cognitive viewpoint; cognition and information science; cognitivism, mentalism, and subjective individualism; categorization; mental models; and sociocognitive approaches to indexing and abstracting. (Contains 170 references.) (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Abstracting, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Indexing, Individualism, Information Science, Knowledge Representation, Literature Reviews, Social Influences

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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