ABSTRACT
Advances in technology have increased the cognitive complexity of tasks, as well as the need for teamwork. Teams in cognitively rich domains (e.g., air traffic control, operating rooms, cockpits, command-and-control, disaster response) are required to detect and interpret cues, remember, reason, plan, solve problems, acquire knowledge, and make decisions as an integrated, coordinated unit. We refer to these collaborative cognitive processes as team cognition, and we propose that understanding team cognition is critical to understanding much team performance and intervening to prevent errors and improve effectiveness (Cooke et al., 2000; Cooke et al., in 2004).
