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Remember how people used to tell us that once we could summarize our dissertations into a single sentence, we'd be ready to finish? I accidentally found some great stuff on how cognitive scientists think about that phenomenon, called cognitive chunking. Your insight above is a beautiful example of cognitive chunking, of the kind that only decades of immersion in a subject can condense.
I was just working on an email to Bill Seligman about writing processes and humanities research, with some serendipitous digressions into Craft teaching and magic in the change-of-consciousness sense of the word. I wound up talking a lot about Daniel Willingham's book Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom. This is a book that would benefit...everyone, I think. Absolutely everyone, no matter what their projects are, because whatever we do, we need to learn.
Ok, this sounds like good stuff I need to learn more about, both cognitive science in general and Willingham's book in particular.
"Cognitive chunking" may be a way of talking about the mental model-building my brain does on a frequent intermittent basis.
I can go do my own thing, but it just sort of does its own cyclic process of cognitive chunking on and off in the background, regardless of what I try to do at a conscious level.
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Date: 2012-03-19 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-03-21 05:10 am (UTC)I was just working on an email to Bill Seligman about writing processes and humanities research, with some serendipitous digressions into Craft teaching and magic in the change-of-consciousness sense of the word. I wound up talking a lot about Daniel Willingham's book Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom. This is a book that would benefit...everyone, I think. Absolutely everyone, no matter what their projects are, because whatever we do, we need to learn.
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Date: 2012-03-21 03:11 pm (UTC)"Cognitive chunking" may be a way of talking about the mental model-building my brain does on a frequent intermittent basis.
I can go do my own thing, but it just sort of does its own cyclic process of cognitive chunking on and off in the background, regardless of what I try to do at a conscious level.
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Date: 2012-03-21 03:12 pm (UTC)I may have need for semi-local dissertation coaches to refer students to in the near future. Wanna talk about that in mid-April?