title: An Emergentist Account of Collective Cognition in Collaborative Problem Solving 
creator: Voiklis, John
creator: Kapur, Manu
creator: Kinzer, Charles
creator: Black, John
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Behavioral Analysis
description: 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.
publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
contributor: Sun, Ron
contributor: Miyake, Naomi
date: 2006-07
type: Conference Paper
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/6287/1/VoiklisEtAl_Emergentist.pdf
identifier:   Voiklis, John and Kapur, Manu and Kinzer, Charles and Black, John  (2006) An Emergentist Account of Collective Cognition in Collaborative Problem Solving.  [Conference Paper]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/6287/