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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 -