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Name:	*Etienne Pelaprat* Web Page
Education:	B.S. Cognitive Science, UCSD (2002)
Awards/ Fellowships:	Cal-IT(2) Graduate Fellow (2003/2004) UC Day Undergraduate Research Award (2002) UCSD Undergraduate Research Award (2002)
Research Interests:	"I am currently interested in research on biodiversity, specifically technological infrastructures powering the discourse, rhetoric, politics and data structures of the "global" research discipline. I also have a continuing interest in the cultural mediation of cognitive processes, which is principally manifested in the study of technological artifacts. I apply at least three theoretical approaches to my work on cognition: first, the cultural-historical approach stemming from the work of The Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition; second, the theory of Distributed Cognition; and finally, Activity Theory. My final interest rests at the intersection of myth, storytelling and narrative with cognitive science. Here, I investigate how the former shape the latter -- how stories, narrative, etc mediate our daily cogntiive mental life. In general, my central analytic research question is aimed at understanding how technology and culture mediate mental processes."