Creating Scientific Concepts
- N. Nersessian
- Psychology
- 2008
Nancy Nersessian argues that complex cognitive operations and structures constitute a powerful form of reasoning -- model-based reasoning -- that generates novelty.
The Cognitive Basis of Science: The cognitive basis of model-based reasoning in science
- N. Nersessian
- Education
- 1 May 2002
The issue of the nature of the processes or ‘mechanisms’ that underlie scientific cognition is a fundamental problem for cognitive science, as is how these facilitate and constrain scientific…
Model-Based Reasoning in Conceptual Change
- N. Nersessian
- Education
- 1999
This paper addresses how specific modeling practices employed by scientists are productive methods of conceptual change in science by focusing on three forms of model-based reasoning demonstrated in previous work as generative of conceptual changes in science: analogical modeling, visual modeling, and thought experimenting.
In the Theoretician's Laboratory: Thought Experimenting as Mental Modeling
- N. Nersessian
- PsychologyPSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the…
- 1 January 1992
Thought experiments have played a prominent role in numerous cases of conceptual change in science. I propose that research in cognitive psychology into the role of mental modeling in narrative…
Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery
- L. Magnani, N. Nersessian, P. Thagard
- BiologySpringer US
- 1999
This book discusses models, Mental Models, and Representations, how scientists build models in Vivo Science as a Window on the Scientific Mind, and how the development of Models in the Philosophy of Science is traced.
The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century
- J. Buchwald, N. Nersessian
- History, Physics
- 1 April 1991
"No one interested in the history of optics, the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physics, or the general phenomenon of theory change in science can afford to ignore Jed Buchwald's…
Should physicists preach what they practice?
- N. Nersessian
- Education
- 1 July 1995
Does one need to think like a scientist to learn science? To what extent can examining the cognitive activities of scientists provide insights for developing effective pedagogical practices? The…
Distributed Cognition as a Theoretical Framework for Information Visualization
- Zhicheng Liu, N. Nersessian, J. Stasko
- Computer ScienceIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer…
- 1 November 2008
This paper argues that the distributed cognition framework can be used to substantiate the theoretical foundation of InfoVis, and highlights the view that cognition is more an emergent property of interaction than a property of the human mind.
The Cognitive-Cultural Systems of the Research Laboratory
- N. Nersessian
- Psychology
- 1 January 2006
A central challenge for science studies researchers in developing accounts of knowledge construction in science and engineering is to integrate the cognitive, social, cultural, and material…
Mental modeling in conceptual change
- N. Nersessian
- Education
- 19 June 2013
IntroductionThe nature and processes of "conceptual change" are problems that are of considerable interest to researchers across several disciplines occupied with developing understandings of…
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