This study includes chapters on: how curiosity engenders discovery; the rhythms of scientific thinking; what scientific thinking reveals about the nature of cognition; developing reflective enquiry practices; and reconsidering the role of experiment in science cognition.

This study includes chapters on: how curiosity engenders discovery; the rhythms of scientific thinking; what scientific thinking reveals about the nature of cognition; developing reflective enquiry practices; and reconsidering the role of experiment in science cognition.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration calls attention to a serious need to study the problems and processes of interdisciplinary inquiry, to reflect on the current state of scientific knowledge regarding interdisciplinary collaboration, and to encourage research that studies interdisciplinary cognition in relation to the ecological contexts in which it occurs. It contains reflections and research on interdisciplinarity found in a number of different contexts by practitioners and scientists from a number of disciplines and several chapters represent attempts by cognitive scientists to look...