Cognitive Studies of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Team Leader: Sharon J. Derry

Project goal: How do interdisciplinary groups conduct research on important societal problems? How do individuals' thought processes and social processes interact as they learn and work productively together? This project, now complete, advanced knowledge of how to design better procedures and technologies for improving interdisciplinary collaboration and effort, particularly within the Institute. 

Products: A book, Toward a Cognitive Science of Interdisciplinary Collaboration (forthcoming), contains reflections and research on interdisciplinarity by practitioners and scientists from a number of disciplines—anthropology, artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy and psychology. Section I provides contextual overviews of literature and theory on interdisciplinary research and education.  In Section II, cognitive science researchers examine varied forms of  interdisciplinarity as “cognition in the wild.” In Section III, several noted cognitive scientists turn the analytical lenses of their own disciplines to the critical examination of cognitive science itself as a case study in interdisciplinary collaboration.  

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