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Errors and Interaction: A cognitive ethnography of emergency medicine
Sarah Bro Trasmundi
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 309] 2020
► pp. 45–80

Chapter 4
Medical errors and visual perception

Article outline
  • 1.The hypothesis of visual perception
  • 2.Distributed visual systems: What makes human perception special
  • 3.Case 1: Temporal dynamics and visual perception
    • 3.1The distributed patient
    • 3.2The heterarchical roles of artefacts
    • 3.3Semantic memory: Categories as constraints in diagnostic processes
  • 4.Case II: Sense-saturated visual systems, intentionality and tendencies in visual perception
    • 4.1Moulding the optic array through sense-saturated locomotion
    • 4.2The historical body, the flow of perception, and timescales
  • 5.Case III: Random manipulation: Developing the visual system through probing-activities
    • 5.1Moving as seeing: An undeveloped visual system
  • 6.Understanding visual systems
  • Notes
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