“The study of cognitive phenomena within social and natural contexts.1 It is an integrative perspective drawing from aspects of ecological psychology, cognitive science, evolutionary ecology and anthropology.
“Cognitive ecology explores the interactive relationship between organism-environment interactions and its impact on cognitive phenomena.1 Human cognition in this framework is multimodal and viewed similarly to enactivist perspectives on cognitive processing. For cultural concepts, this emphasizes cognitive distribution across an ecosystem, which is predicated on models of the extended mind thesis.”