VALUE-ADDED PROCESSING OF REPRESENTATIONAL AND SPECULATIVE INFORMATION USING COGNITIVE SKILLS

Representational information is given on the terms "Cognition," "Cognitive Processes," and "Information Processing," through a review of value-added definitions of these terms that lexicographic information processors have written for publication in dictionaries, encyclopedia, or thesauri. Speculative representational information for the terms " information Processing" and "Cognitive Skills" is then presented to aid in stimulating creativity among researchers within library and information science. Cross-disciplinary information from cognitive, cultural, and folk psychology is also used to stimulate such creativity. The information processing under consideration is primarily manual and mental for meaning making, rather than machine and computational for file making.