The Cognitive Basis of Science: The cognitive basis of model-based reasoning in science

By Nancy J. Nersessian. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science

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Knowledge Recombination Across Technological Boundaries: Scientists vs. Engineers (2013, background): “Because of the contextual embeddedness of distant technological knowledge (Nonaka 1994), an important part of this meta-learning ability is the skill to characterize phenomena in general forms and to abstract from the complexity of particular objects or systems (Nersessian 2002).”
Making it personal: : Opportunity individuation and the shaping of opportunity beliefs (2014, background): “…suggests that motivation to evaluate the opportunity (Hamilton et al., 1980; Shane et al., 2003), experience with prior entrepreneurial failure (Nersessian, 2002; Walsh and Bartunek, 2011), and the entrepreneur's fear of failure (Atkinson, 1957; Mitchell and Shepherd, 2010) are individual…”
The role and impact of mental simulation in design (2009, background): “Here (following Nersessian, 2002, p. 143 ), we minimally hypothesize that humans reason by constructing a mental model of the situations, events and processes in WM that in dynamic cases can be manipulated through simulation.”
The Oxford handbook of thinking and reasoning (2012, background): “This “radical conceptual change” process (see Keil, 1999; Nersessian 1998, 2002; Thagard, 1992; Vosniadou 1998, for reviews) requires the formation of a new conceptual Page 18 of 52 Scientific Thinking and Reasoning PRINTED FROM OXFORD HANDBOOKS ONLINE (www.oxfordhandbooks.com).”
Visual and Spatial Modes in Science Learning (2009, background): “Visual‐mental models do figure prominently in cases of conceptual change across the sciences (Nersessian, 2002 ).”
Scientific Thinking and Reasoning (2012, background): “16; Nersessian, 2002 ; Thagard, 1992).”
Mechanisms and psychological explanation (2007, background): “There is related work by philosophers (Nersessian, 1999, 2002) and psychologists (Ippolito & Tweney, 1995) on simulating experiments which may be useful to developing a more robust account of how cognitive agents come to understand the relation between the components of a mechanism and what it does.”
Modeling as a teaching learning process for understanding materials: A case study in primary education (2007, background): “Both those in philosophy of science (Giere, 1988, 1997; Nersessian, 2002) and science education from American and European traditions (Clement, 2000; Duschl, 2000; Duschl &”