Selected Publications

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Books

Osbeck, L., N. J. Nersessian, K. Malone, and W. Newstetter. (2011). Science as Psychology: Sense-making and Identity in Science Practice. Cambridge University Press. (William James Book Prize, American Psychological Association, 2012)

Nersessian, N. (2008). Creating Scientific Concepts. Cambridge, MA:: MIT Press.
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Book Chapters

Nersessian, N. J. & Newstetter, W. C. (2013). Interdisciplinarity in Engineering Research and Learning. Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research, A. Jori & B. Olds eds. in press 2013
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Nersessian, N. J. (2012). Modeling Practices in Conceptual Innovation: An ethnographic study of a neural engineering research laboratory in Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice, U. Feest & F. Steinle, eds. (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2012). 245-269.
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Chandrasekharan, S., Nersessian, N.J., & Subramanian, V. (2012). Computational modeling: Is this the end of thought experiments in science? In J. Brown, M. Frappier, & L. Meynell (Eds.), Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science and the Arts, pp. 239-260. London: Routledge.
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Osbeck, L. & Nersessian, N.J. (2012). The acting person in science studies. In R. Proctor and J. Capaldi (Eds.), Psychology of science: Implicit and explicit processes,pp. 89-111. NY: Oxford University Press.
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Nersessian, N. (2008). Mental modeling in conceptual change. In S. Vosniadou (Ed.), International Handbook of Conceptual Change, pp. 391-416. London: Routledge.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Journal Articles

Osbeck, L.M. & Nersessian, N.J. (2014). Situating Distributed Cognition. Philosophical Psychology, Special Issue: Extended Cognition, on-line 8/19/13, in press 2014
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MacLeod, M. & Nersessian, N.J. (2013). Coupling Simulation and Experiment: The Bimodal Strategy in Integrative Systems Biology in Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 44 vol 4.
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MacLeod, M. & Nersessian, N.J. (2013). Building Simulations from the Ground-Up: Modeling and Theory in Systems Biology in Philosophy of Science 80:533-556
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MacLeod, M. & Nersessian, N.J. (2013). The creative industry of integrative systems biology in Mind & Society, 12:35-48
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Aurigemma, J., Chandrasekharan, S., Nersessian, N. J., & Newstetter, W. (2013). Turning experiments into objects: the cognitive processes involved in the design of a lab-on-a-chip device in Journal of Engineering Education, Special Issue: Representations (vol. 102, 1/2013).
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Nersessian, N.J. (2012). Engineering concepts: The interplay between concept formation and modeling practices in bioengineering sciences. Mind, Culture, & Activity, Special Issue: Concept Formation in the Wild, vol. 19
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Voit, E.O., Newstetter, W.C., & Kemp, M.L. (2012). A feel for systems. Molecular Systems Biology 8:609
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Osbeck, L. & Nersessian, N.J. (2010). Forms of positioning in interdisciplinary science practice and their epistemic effects. The Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 40:136-161.
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Osbeck, L. & Nersessian, N.J. (2010). Affective Problem Solving: Emotions in Research Practice. Mind and Society, 6.20.10 (online), 10:57-28, 2011 (print).
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Newstetter, W.C., Behravesh, E., Nersessian, N., Fasse, B. (2010). Design principles for problem-driven learning laboratories in biomedical engineering education. Annals of biomedical engineering, 38:3257-3267.
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Chandrasekharan, S., Mazalek, A., Chen, Y., Nitsche, M., Ranjan, A. (2010). Ideomotor Design: using common coding theory to derive novel video game interactions. Pragmatics & Cognition, 18 (2), 313-339.
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Chandrasekharan, S., and Osbeck, L. (2010). Rethinking Situatedness: Environment Structure in the Time of the Common Code. Theory & Psychology, 20 (2), 171-207.
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Nersessian, N. (2009). How do engineering scientists think? Model-based simulation in biomedical engineering research laboratories. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1:730-757.
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Chandrasekharan, S. (2009). Building to discover: a common coding model. Cognitive Science, 33 (6), 1059-1086.
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Osbeck, L. (2010). The critical place of personalism: Comments on Stern and the special issue. New Ideas in Psychology, 28 (2), 191-198.

Osbeck, L. (2009). Transformations in cognitive science: Implications and issues posed. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Vol. 29, No. 1, 16-33.
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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.
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Chandrasekharan, S. and N. J. Nersessian (2008). Counterfactuals in science and engineering. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 454-455.

Malone, K. R. and G. Barabino (2008). Narrations of race in stem research settings: Identity formation and its discontents. Science Education.

Tissaw, M. A. and L. Osbeck (2007). Reflections on critical engagement with the mainstream. Theory and Psychology 17, 155-168.
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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.
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Osbeck, L. and N. J. Nersessian (2006, June). The distribution of representation. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 36(2), 141-160.
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Nersessian, N. J. (2006b). Model-based reasoning in distributed cognitive systems. Philosophy of Science 72, 699-709.
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Nersessian, N. J. (2006a). The cognitive-cultural systems of the research laboratory. Organization Studies 27, 125-145.
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Newstetter, W. C. (2006). Fostering integrative problem solving in biomedical engineering: The pbl approach. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 34, 217-225.
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Malone, K. R. and S. D. Kelly (2006). Women in science: Should we bother with a psychoanalytic viewpoint? Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 10, 207.

Newstetter, W. (2005). Designing cognitive apprenticeships for biomedical engineering. Journal of Engineering Education 94, 207.

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.
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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.
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Conference Proceedings

Wu, A., Caspary, E., Yim, J., Mazalek, A., Chandrasekharan, S. & Nersessian, N.J. (2011). Kinesthetic Pathways: A tabletop visualization to support discovery in systems biology. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on : Creativity & Cognition, New York. ACM, Inc.
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Chandrasekharan, S. & Nersessian, N.J. (2011). Building cognition: The construction of external representations for discovery. In Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society 33.
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Newstetter, W. & Nersessian, N.J. (2011). Unpacking the interdisciplinary mind: Implications for teaching and learning. In Proceedings of 41st ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference.
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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.
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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.
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Chandrasekharan, S., Bora, S., Athreya, D., Srinivasan, N. (2007). Thinking More Lowers Hand Waving: Dual Task Damps Hand Movements that Accompany Mental Rotation. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, 857-862.
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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.

Osbeck, L., W. Newstetter, and N. J. Nersessian (2006). Positioning in the laboratory. Zacatecas, Mexico. International Society for Psychology of Science.
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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., 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.

Newstetter, W. (2005b). Problem-based learning in biomedical engineering. In J. Linehan (Ed.), Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Summit II.

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, pp. 372-379.
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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.
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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.
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