Selected Publications
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Osbeck, L., N. J. Nersessian, K. Malone, and W. Newstetter. Science as Psychology: Sense-making and Social Identity in Science Practice. Cambridge University Press.
Osbeck, L. (2009). The critical place of personalism: Comments on Stern and the special issue. New Ideas in Psychology, in press
Osbeck, L. (2009). Transformations in cognitive science: Implications and issues posed. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, in press.
Chandrasekharan, S. & Osbeck, L. (2009). Rethinking Situatedness: Environmental structure in the time of common code. Theory and Psychology, in press.
Nersessian, N. (2009).
How do engineering scientists think? Model-based simulation in
biomedical engineering research laboratories.
Topics in Cognitive Science, 1:3, in press.
Nersessian, N. J. and S. Chandrasekharan (2009).
Hybrid analogies in conceptual innovation in science.
Cognitive Systems Research Journal: Special Issue: Integrating Cognitive Abilities, 10: pp. 178-188.
Nersessian, N. J. and C. Patton (2009). Model-based reasoning in interdisciplinary engineering. In A. Meijers (Ed.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences, Springer, pp. 678-718. [ PDF ]
Chandrasekharan, S. and N. J. Nersessian (2008). Counterfactuals in science and engineering. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 454-455.
Newstetter, W., A. Johri, and V. Wulf (2008).
Laboratory learning: Industry and university research and innovation
as site for situated and distributed cognition.
In Proceedings of ICLS Conference 08, AACE.
Harmon, E. and N. J. Nersessian (2008).
Cognitive partnerships on the benchtop: designing to support
scientific researchers.
In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Designing
Interactive Systems - DIS 2008, New York, pp. 119-128. ACM, Inc.
Nersessian, N. (2008a).
Creating Scientific Concepts.
Cambridge, MA:: MIT Press.
Nersessian, N. (2008b).
Mental modeling in conceptual change.
In S. Vosniadou (Ed.), International Handbook of Conceptual
Change, pp. 391-416. London: Routledge.
Malone, K. R. and G. Barabino (2008). Narrations of race in stem research settings: Identity formation and its discontents. Science Education.
Newstetter, W. and N. J. Nersessian (2007). Crossing the science/engineering divide: Design principles for interdisciplinary learning environments. In Proceedings of the first International Conference on Research in Engineering Education.
Tissaw, M. A. and L. Osbeck (2007).
Reflections on critical engagement with the mainstream.
Theory and Psychology 17, 155-168.
Osbeck, L. M., K. R. Malone, and N. J. Nersessian (2007).
Dissenters in the sanctuary: Evolving frameworks in "mainstream"
cognitive science.
Theory and Psychology 17(2), 243.
Osbeck, L. and N. J. Nersessian (2006, June).
The distribution of representation.
Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 36(2),
141-160.
Osbeck, L., W. Newstetter, and N. J. Nersessian (2006).
Positioning in the laboratory.
Zacatecas, Mexico. International Society for Psychology of Science.
Nersessian, N. J. (2006b).
Model-based reasoning in distributed cognitive systems.
Philosophy of Science 72, 699-709.
Sun, Y., W. Newstetter, and N. J. Nersessian (2006). Promoting model-based reasoning in problem-based learning. In N. Myiake and R. Sun (Eds.), Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society 28.
Malone, K. R. and S. D. Kelly (2006). Women in science: Should we bother with a psychoanalytic viewpoint? Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 10, 207.
Malone, K. R., W. C. Newstetter, and G. Barabino (2006). Valuing diversity as it happens: Exploring laboratory interactions when more is going on than science. In ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education, San Diego, CA.
Nersessian, N. J. (2006a).
The cognitive-cultural systems of the research laboratory.
Organization Studies 27, 125-145.
Newstetter, W. C. (2006).
Fostering integrative problem solving in biomedical engineering: The
pbl approach.
Annuals of Biomedical Engineering 34, 217-225.
Nersessian, N. J., E. Kurz-Milcke, and J. Davies (2005).
Ubiquitous computing in science and engineering research
laboratories: A case study from biomedical engineering.
In M. S. Gerassimos Kouzelis, Maria Pournari and V. Tselfes (Eds.),
Knowledge in the New Technologies, pp. 167-195. Berlin: Peter Lang.
Nersessian, N. J. (2005).
Interpreting scientific and engineering practices: Integrating the
cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions.
In M. E. Gorman, R. D. Tweney, D. C. Gooding, and A. P. Kincannon
(Eds.), Scientific and Technological Thinking, pp. 17-56. Hillsdale,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Newstetter, W. (2005a). Designing cognitive apprenticeships for biomedical engineering. Journal of Engineering Education 94, 207.
Newstetter, W. (2005b). Problem-based learning in biomedical engineering. In J. Linehan (Ed.), Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Summit II.
Malone, K., N. J. Nersessian, and W. Newstetter (2005).
Gender writ small: Gendered enactments and gendered narratives about
lab organization and knowledge transmission in a bio-medical engineering lab
research setting.
Journal of Women & Minorities in Science & Engineering
11, 61.
Newstetter, W., E. Kurz-Milcke, and N. J. Nersessian (2004a). Agentive learning in engineering research labs. In Proceedings of 2004 FIE Conference.
Newstetter, W., E. Kurz-Milcke, and N. J. Nersessian (2004b).
Cognitive partnerships on the bench tops.
In Y. Kafai and W. Sandoval (Eds.), Proceedings of 2004 ICLS
Conference.
Kurz-Milcke, E., N. J. Nersessian, and W. Newstetter (2004).
What has history to do with cognition? interactive methods for
studying research laboratories.
Cognition and Culture 4, 663.
Nersessian, N. J., E. Kurz-Milcke, W. C. Newstetter, and J. Davies (2003).
Research laboratories as evolving distributed cognitive systems.
In Proceedings of The 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society, pp. 857-862.
Nersessian, N. J. (2002).
The cognitive basis of model-based reasoning in science.
In P. Carruthers, S. Stich, and M. Siegal (Eds.), The Cognitive
Basis of Science, Chapter 7, pp. 133-153. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Newstetter, W., N. J. Nersessian, E. Kurz-Milcke, and K. R. Malone (2002). Laboratory learning, classroom learning: Looking for convergence/divergence in biomedical engineering. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Sciences, Hillsdale, N.J., pp. 315-321. Lawrence Erlbaum.
Nersessian, N. J., W. C. Newstetter, E. Kurz-Milcke, and J. Davies (2002).
A mixed-method approach to studying distributed cognition in evolving
environments.
In Proceeedings of the International Conference on Learning
Sciences, pp. 307 - 314.