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Cognitive Offloading — Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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Key
risko-gilbert-2016-cognitive-offloading
Authors
Risko, Evan F.; Gilbert, Sam J.
Issued
2016-9
Type
article-journal
Container
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume
20
Issue
9
Pages
676-688
DOI
10.1016/j.tics.2016.07.002
URL
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661316300985
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Claims

  1. canonical-definition
    Cognitive offloading is defined as the use of physical action to alter the information-processing requirements of a task so as to reduce cognitive demand.
    "cognitive offloading: the use of physical action to alter the information processing requirements of a task so as to reduce cognitive demand."
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