Voiklis John K. author Teachers College. Human Development Kapur Manu author Teachers College. Mathematics, Science, and Technology Kinzer Charles author Teachers College. Mathematics, Science, and Technology Black John B. author Teachers College. Human Development Teachers College. Human Development originator text Articles 2006 English 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. Cognitive psychology Mahwah, N.J. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2006 858 863 http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:29809 NNC NNC 2011-03-31 13:29:15 -0400 2011-11-10 12:54:42 -0500 3536 eng