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TY - GEN ID - cogprints6287 UR - http://cogprints.org/6287/ A1 - Voiklis, John A1 - Kapur, Manu A1 - Kinzer, Charles A1 - Black, John Y1 - 2006/07// 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. PB - Lawrence Erlbaum Associates KW - emergence problem-solving collective-cognition coordination TI - An Emergentist Account of Collective Cognition in Collaborative Problem Solving SP - 858 AV - public EP - 863 ER -