Selected Publications

Osbeck, L. M., & Nersessian, N.J. (2006). The Distribution of representation. to appear in the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 36, pp. 141-160. [ PDF ]

Nersessian, N.J. (2006). The Cognitive-Cultural Systems of the Research Laboratory. Organization Studies, 27(1), pp. 125-145.[ PDF ]

Sun, Y, Newstetter W., & Nersessian, N.J. (2006). “Promoting model-based reasoning in problem-based learning,” Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Nersessian, N. J. (2005). Model-based reasoning in distributed cognitive systems. Philosophy of Science vol 72, no 5 2005.[ PDF ]

Nersessian, N. J., Kurz-Milcke, E. & Davies, J. (2005). Ubiquitous computing in science and engineering research laboratories: A case study from biomedical engineering. In G. Kouzoulis et al., (Eds.), Knowledge in the New Technologies Berlin: Peter Lang Publishers. pp. 167-198. [ PDF ]

Malone, K. R., Nersessian, N. J., & Newstetter, W. C. (2005). Gender Writ Small: Gender Enactments and Gendered Narratives about lab organization and knowledge transmission in a Bio-medical Engineering Research Setting. Journal of Women & Minorities in Science & Engineering, vol. 11, no. 1. [ PDF ]

Nersessian, N. J. (2005). Interpreting scientific and engineering practices: Integrating the cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions. In Scientific and Technological Thinking, M. Gorman, R. Tweney, D. Gooding, & A. Kincannon, eds. (Erlbaum). pp. 17-56. [ PDF, ~ 7 MB ]

Newstetter, W., Kurz-milcke,E., & Nersessian, N. J. (2004) Cognitive partnerships on the bench tops. Proceedings of ICLS Conference 04, AACE. [ PDF ]

Kurz-Milcke, E., Nersessian, N.J., & Newstetter, W. (2004). "What has history to do with cognition? Interactive methods for studying research laboratories," Cognition and Culture, special issue: Cognitive Anthropology of Science 4:663-700. [ PDF, ~ 155 KB ]

Nersessian, N. J., Kurz-Milcke, E., Newstetter, W. C., & Davies, J. (2003). Research laboratories as evolving distributed cognitive systems. Proceedings of The 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. pp.857-862. [ PDF, ~ 1.8 MB ]

Nersessian, N. J., Newstetter, W. C., Kurz-Milcke, E. & Davies, J. (2003). A Mixed-method Approach to Studying Distributed Cognition in Evolving Environments. Proceeedings of the International Conference on Learning Sciences. pp. 307 - 314. [ PDF, ~ 215 KB ]