An Emergentist Account of Collective Cognition in Collaborative Problem Solving Export

@inproceedings{VoiklisKapur2006Emergentist, abstract = {As a first step toward an emergentist theory of collective cognition in collaborative problem solving, we present a proto-theoretical account of how one might conceive and model the intersubjective processes that organize collective cognition into one or another—convergent, divergent, or tensive—cognitive regime. To explore the sufficiency of our emergentist proposal we instantiate a minimalist model of intersubjective convergence and simulate the tuning of collective cognition using data from an empirical study of small-group, collaborative problem solving. Using the results of this empirical simulation, we test a number of preliminary hypotheses with regard to patterns of interaction, how those patterns affect a cognitive regime, and how that cognitive regime affects the efficacy of a problem-solving group.}, address = {Mahwah, NJ}, author = {Voiklis, John and Kapur, Manu and Kinzer, Charles and Black, John}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society}, citeulike-article-id = {1682762}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/CSJarchive/Proceedings/2006/docs/p858.pdf}, editor = {Sun, Ron and Miyake, Naomi}, keywords = {emergence, problem-solving}, pages = {858--863}, posted-at = {2007-09-21 16:32:27}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Lawrence Erlbaum Associates}, title = {An Emergentist Account of Collective Cognition in Collaborative Problem Solving}, url = {http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/CSJarchive/Proceedings/2006/docs/p858.pdf}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - VoiklisKapur2006Emergentist L3 - citeulike-article-id:1682762 N2 - As a first step toward an emergentist theory of collective cognition in collaborative problem solving, we present a proto-theoretical account of how one might conceive and model the intersubjective processes that organize collective cognition into one or another—convergent, divergent, or tensive—cognitive regime. To explore the sufficiency of our emergentist proposal we instantiate a minimalist model of intersubjective convergence and simulate the tuning of collective cognition using data from an empirical study of small-group, collaborative problem solving. Using the results of this empirical simulation, we test a number of preliminary hypotheses with regard to patterns of interaction, how those patterns affect a cognitive regime, and how that cognitive regime affects the efficacy of a problem-solving group. AD - Mahwah, NJ EP - 863 TI - An Emergentist Account of Collective Cognition in Collaborative Problem Solving PB - Lawrence Erlbaum Associates T2 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society SP - 858 KW - emergence KW - problem-solving AU - Voiklis, John AU - Kapur, Manu AU - Kinzer, Charles AU - Black, John A2 - Sun, Ron A2 - Miyake, Naomi PY - 2006/// UR - http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/CSJarchive/Proceedings/2006/docs/p858.pdf ER -