An Emergentist Account of Collective Cognition in Collaborative Problem Solving

@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}, editor = {Sun, R. and Miyake, N. }, 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 TI - An Emergentist Account of Collective Cognition in Collaborative Problem Solving T2 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society SP - 858 EP - 863 AD - Mahwah, NJ PB - Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 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. KW - emergence KW - problem-solving AU - Voiklis, John AU - Kapur, Manu AU - Kinzer, Charles AU - Black, John A2 - Sun, R A2 - Miyake, N PY - 2006/// UR - http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/CSJarchive/Proceedings/2006/docs/p858.pdf ER -