ABSTRACT
This chapter describes some ideas from cognitive science that identify underlying principles that may be applied across varied devising processes. Cognitive neuroscientist Edwin Hutchins is one of the most significant researchers in the field of distributed cognition, and has developed the concept of the cultural-cognitive ecosystem to describe the ways in which all human cognition is 'distributed.' In the clinical sense, synaesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. Nir Paldi identifies several different features as constraints: the use of darkness, the topic of the Israel–Palestine conflict and the topic of ageing. He also acknowledges that a performance arises through the process – in the terms of cognitive science, that it is emergent meaning. Dynamic Systems Theory provides a model that describes the flow of relationships among the components of a whole phenomenon.
