Why We Need Team Cognition

Abstract

Contributors to this volume have addressed a number of issues and questions to provide an overview of the different approaches to team cognition. In this vein, authors have considered the team cognition construct as a process or a product of group interaction. In particular, team cognition can be related to the process of information encoding, storage, and retrieval, such that a group product emerges (Larson & Christensen, 1993). As this suggests, groups or teams can be considered to be information-processing units (Hinsz, Tindale, & Vollrath, 1997) in a manner analogous to early views of human cognition (e.g., Newell & Simon, 1972). Thus, team cognition can describe a process (e.g., the transmission of team-relevant knowledge) or a product (e.g., shared mental model).

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA524496

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  • Eduardo Salas
  • Stephen M. Fiore

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