creators_name: Voiklis, John
creators_name: Kapur, Manu
creators_name: Kinzer, Charles
creators_name: Black, John
creators_id: jv37@columbia.edu
creators_id: manu_kapur@hotmail.com
creators_id: kinzer@tc.columbia.edu
creators_id: black@tc.columbia.edu
editors_name: Sun, Ron
editors_name: Miyake, Naomi
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2008-12-04 17:29:35
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:16
metadata_visibility: show
title: An Emergentist Account of Collective Cognition in Collaborative Problem Solving 
ispublished: pub
subjects: soc-psy
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: behav-anal
full_text_status: public
keywords: emergence problem-solving collective-cognition coordination
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.
date: 2006-07
date_type: published
publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
pagerange: 858-863
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Voiklis, John and Kapur, Manu and Kinzer, Charles and Black, John  (2006) An Emergentist Account of Collective Cognition in Collaborative Problem Solving.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/6287/1/VoiklisEtAl_Emergentist.pdf