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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 378, 期 1870, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0361
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social interaction; abstraction; convergence; divergence; group composition; diversity
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This paper explores how social interaction shapes and modulates cognitive processes, particularly the process of abstraction. It highlights the impact of cognitive demands, social coordination, and task ecologies on information processing, and suggests that the interactive sharing and integration of varied individual experiences facilitate processes of abstraction. The article also discusses the dynamics of group interactions in relation to group composition and highlights the importance of cognitive diversity in interactive processes.
The human capacity for abstraction is remarkable. We effortlessly form abstract representations from varied experiences, generalizing and flexibly transferring experiences and knowledge between contexts, which can facilitate reasoning, problem solving and learning across many domains. The cognitive process of abstraction, however, is often portrayed and investigated as an individual process. This paper addresses how cognitive processes of abstraction-together with other aspects of human reasoning and problem solving-are fundamentally shaped and modulated by online social interaction. Starting from a general distinction between convergent thinking, divergent thinking and processes of abstraction, we address how social interaction shapes information processing differently depending on cognitive demands, social coordination and task ecologies. In particular, we suggest that processes of abstraction are facilitated by the interactive sharing and integration of varied individual experiences. To this end, we also discuss how the dynamics of group interactions vary as a function of group composition; that is, in terms of the similarity and diversity between the group members. We conclude by outlining the role of cognitive diversity in interactive processes and consider the importance of group diversity in processes of abstraction. This article is part of the theme issue 'Concepts in interaction: social engagement and inner experiences'.
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