TY - JOUR

T1 - Beyond Single-Mindedness

T2 - A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences

AU - Dingemanse, Mark

AU - Liesenfeld, Andreas

AU - Rasenberg, Marlou

AU - Albert, Saul

AU - Ameka, Felix K

AU - Birhane, Abeba

AU - Bolis, Dimitris

AU - Cassell, Justine

AU - Clift, Rebecca

AU - Cuffari, Elena

AU - De Jaegher, Hanne

AU - Novaes, Catarina Dutilh

AU - Enfield, N J

AU - Fusaroli, Riccardo

AU - Gregoromichelaki, Eleni

AU - Hutchins, Edwin

AU - Konvalinka, Ivana

AU - Milton, Damian

AU - Rączaszek-Leonardi, Joanna

AU - Reddy, Vasudevi

AU - Rossano, Federico

AU - Schlangen, David

AU - Seibt, Johanna

AU - Stokoe, Elizabeth

AU - Suchman, Lucy

AU - Vesper, Cordula

AU - Wheatley, Thalia

AU - Wiltschko, Martina

PY - 2023/1/31

Y1 - 2023/1/31

N2 - A fundamental fact about human minds is that they are never truly alone: all minds are steeped in situated interaction. That social interaction matters is recognized by any experimentalist who seeks to exclude its influence by studying individuals in isolation. On this view, interaction complicates cognition. Here, we explore the more radical stance that interaction co-constitutes cognition: that we benefit from looking beyond single minds toward cognition as a process involving interacting minds. All around the cognitive sciences, there are approaches that put interaction center stage. Their diverse and pluralistic origins may obscure the fact that collectively, they harbor insights and methods that can respecify foundational assumptions and fuel novel interdisciplinary work. What might the cognitive sciences gain from stronger interactional foundations? This represents, we believe, one of the key questions for the future. Writing as a transdisciplinary collective assembled from across the classic cognitive science hexagon and beyond, we highlight the opportunity for a figure-ground reversal that puts interaction at the heart of cognition. The interactive stance is a way of seeing that deserves to be a key part of the conceptual toolkit of cognitive scientists.

AB - A fundamental fact about human minds is that they are never truly alone: all minds are steeped in situated interaction. That social interaction matters is recognized by any experimentalist who seeks to exclude its influence by studying individuals in isolation. On this view, interaction complicates cognition. Here, we explore the more radical stance that interaction co-constitutes cognition: that we benefit from looking beyond single minds toward cognition as a process involving interacting minds. All around the cognitive sciences, there are approaches that put interaction center stage. Their diverse and pluralistic origins may obscure the fact that collectively, they harbor insights and methods that can respecify foundational assumptions and fuel novel interdisciplinary work. What might the cognitive sciences gain from stronger interactional foundations? This represents, we believe, one of the key questions for the future. Writing as a transdisciplinary collective assembled from across the classic cognitive science hexagon and beyond, we highlight the opportunity for a figure-ground reversal that puts interaction at the heart of cognition. The interactive stance is a way of seeing that deserves to be a key part of the conceptual toolkit of cognitive scientists.

KW - Social interaction

KW - Cognitive science

KW - Humans

KW - Cognitive Science

KW - Pluralism

KW - Problem Solving

KW - Interdisciplinarity

KW - Cognition

KW - Interaction

KW - Interdisciplinary Studies

U2 - 10.1111/cogs.13230

DO - 10.1111/cogs.13230

M3 - Letter

C2 - 36625324

VL - 47

JO - Cognitive Science

JF - Cognitive Science

SN - 0364-0213

IS - 1

M1 - e13230

ER -