Thanks a lot for share.
Have you read The Psychology of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman? There is a chapter in it: Knowledge in the head and in the world. He thinks they are different. It sheds some light on the representations of distributed cognitive tasks. What is memory? Is it a copy of external environment? No. Memory is an abstract representation of external world. Based on a number of everyday things, He finally drew a conclusion that to err is human.
From your presentation, it seems like human being is good at thinking logically. Is it true or not? Apparently, it is not the case. Reversely, I think the theory of schemata is arguably scientific.
Thank you for the reply
I'll find a copy of that book to read, thank you for your recommendation. Actually Donald A. Norman is the second author of this paper, and this paper was published after the book. So the theory in this paper is should be much solid than in the book. The purpose of the research is to propose a theoretical framework of distributed representations and a methodology of representational analysis for the study of distributed cognitive tasks. The traditional approach to cognition is to assume cognition task exclusively in the mind. The keywords of this study should be: distributed representation, hierarchical task analysis, interaction between internal and external representations. I don't think this presentation stated that "human being is good at thinking logically".
I agree that the presentation did not state that human being is good at think logically. I was vey confused at the course of the deduction and inference---after all, I have not read the original paper. What is that "this paper"? you mean what you narrated in the presentation? I attached the original. Hope I got it correctly.
The paper derived from Prof. Zhang's PhD thesis. It seemed that he survived. At first, I am very curious about similarity of Prof. zhang's idea to that of prof. Donald A.Norman KNOWLEDGE IN THE HEAD AND IN THE WORLD. I mean the essence of idea, not the specific details. After reading the original paper, I eventually got to the buttom of the question. If you read the references of the paper, you will see it was heavily influenced by the theory of Donald A. Norman. I guess he was the advisor of Prof.Zhang. Thank God, he got a goooooooooooooood advisor.
Yeah, "this paper" is the paper I indicated in the slides. Thank you for posting it here. May be you are an expert, but I personally am not good at talking about the "essence of idea" without knowing the "specific details". Anyway, I hope the slides is helpful for you and also I thank you for thanking god for Dr.Zhang .