How do engineering scientists think? Model-based simulation in biomedical engineering research laboratories

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 730-757

  Nersessian, Nancy J ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed cognition; Ethnography; Mental modeling; Model based reasoning; Problem solving; Research laboratories

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PERSONNEL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THINKING;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COGNITION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; THINKING;

EID: 77955826691     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2009.01032.x     Document Type: Article

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