ABSTRACT: This article presents a historical context for the current notion of macrocog-nition. The idea of macrocognition has precedents dating to the first decades of experimental psychology. The distinction between macrocognition and microcogni-tion instantiates philosophical issues

Objective: There are significant points of alignment between a macrocognitive frame of teamwork and a communication perspective. This commentary explores these touch points in regard to use of teams in sociotechnical systems (STS). Background: The mac-rocognitive framework emphasizes a team’s

information processing framework and terminology, variations of the DL have been created, such as those by Lintern (2011) and Cummings (2003). This paper reports a further extension of the method of the DL to decompose macrocognitive work. In particular, the upward leg of the classic DL

Objective: There are significant points of alignment between a macrocognitive frame of teamwork and a communication perspective. This commentary explores these touch points in regard to use of teams in sociotechnical systems (STS). Background: The mac-rocognitive framework emphasizes a team’s

tapped and shown to be relevant to team performance. In this study macrocognitive processes are manually coded in the context of a Noncombatant Evacuation Exercise. In addition, communication flow patterns are extracted for a portion of the communication data and mapped onto the manually coded processes

in these environments are able to work together to plan, think, decide, solve problems, and take action as integrated units. This panel brings together leading researchers from the burgeoning field of macrocognition to discuss their research. In cognitive engineering and related scientific disciplines the term

I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid – a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry – Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity….

This study examines how study participants with no prior knowledge of a set of macrocognitive processes grouped the concepts, defined their categories, and distinguished among groups. The findings from this study both support and extend prior findings about the existence of a set of macrocognitive

develop here a macrocognitive information-processing model of biologically inspired design. We also compare and contrast the model with other information-processing models of analogical design such as TRIZ, case-based design, and design patterns.

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