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According to Wikipedia, Nancy J. Nersessian is the Regents' Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work tends to be in the areas of the philosophy of science, the history of science, and the psychology of science.

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Creating Scientific Concepts (2008) (644)
Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery (1999) (471)
Model-Based Reasoning in Conceptual Change (1999) (335)
The Cognitive Basis of Science: The cognitive basis of model-based reasoning in science (2002) (259)
Faraday to Einstein: Constructing Meaning in Scientific Theories (1984) (235)
Should physicists preach what they practice? (1995) (199)
In the Theoretician's Laboratory: Thought Experimenting as Mental Modeling (1992) (194)
Conceptual change in science and in science education (1989) (178)
Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein (1986) (170)
Distributed Cognition as a Theoretical Framework for Information Visualization (2008) (165)
Model-Based Reasoning (2002) (126)
Opening the Black Box: Cognitive Science and History of Science (1995) (109)
The Cognitive-Cultural Systems of the Research Laboratory (2006) (105)
Interpreting Scientific and Engineering Practices: Integrating the cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions (2003) (103)
How Do Engineering Scientists Think? Model-Based Simulation in Biomedical Engineering Research Laboratories (2009) (89)
Mental modeling in conceptual change (2013) (79)
Research Laboratories as Evolving Distributed Cognitive Systems (2003) (78)
The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light: Optical Theory and Experiment in the Early Nineteenth Century (1991) (77)
Hybrid analogies in conceptual innovation in science (2009) (73)
Science as Psychology: Sense-Making and Identity in Science Practice (2010) (71)
Faraday’s Field Concept (1985) (63)
Model-Based Reasoning: Science, Technology, Values (2012) (60)
Building Cognition: The Construction of Computational Representations for Scientific Discovery (2015) (59)
Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Practice (2008) (59)
Abstraction via generic modeling in concept formation in science (2002) (59)
Thomas Kuhn: Kuhn, Conceptual Change, and Cognitive Science (2002) (57)
Reasoning from Imagery and Analogy in Scientific Concept Formation (1988) (56)
Engineering Concepts: The Interplay between Concept Formation and Modeling Practices in Bioengineering Sciences (2012) (56)
Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning (2002) (53)
Building Simulations from the Ground Up: Modeling and Theory in Systems Biology (2013) (53)
Model-Based Reasoning in Interdisciplinary Engineering (2009) (52)
Aether/or: The creation of scientific concepts (1984) (51)
Function-Follows-Form Transformation in Scientific Problem Solving (2000) (51)
The Process of Science (1987) (50)
The role of generic models in conceptual change (1996) (48)
Coupling simulation and experiment: The bimodal strategy in integrative systems biology. (2013) (48)
The distribution of representation (2006) (47)
Turning Experiments into Objects: The Cognitive Processes Involved in the Design of a Lab‐on‐a‐Chip Device (2013) (47)
Should Physicists Preach What They Practice (1995) (45)
Design Principles for Problem-Driven Learning Laboratories in Biomedical Engineering Education (2010) (44)
A computational model of visual analogies in design (2009) (43)
Nomic Concepts, Frames, and Conceptual Change (2000) (41)
A Cognitive-Historical Approach to Meaning in Scientific Theories (1987) (41)
Studying the influence of culture in global software engineering: thinking in terms of cultural models (2012) (37)
Faraday’s ‘lines of force’ (1984) (36)
Interdisciplinary problem- solving: emerging modes in integrative systems biology (2016) (36)
Model‐Based Reasoning in Distributed Cognitive Systems (2006) (36)
Thought Experimenting as Mental Modeling: Empiricism without Logic (2007) (34)
Building Cognition: The Construction of External Representations for Discovery (2011) (34)
Perceptual Simulation in Analogical Problem Solving (2002) (32)
Modeling systems-level dynamics: Understanding without mechanistic explanation in integrative systems biology. (2015) (32)
Strategies for coordinating experimentation and modeling in integrative systems biology. (2014) (30)
The role of perceptually represented structure in analogical problem solving (2006) (30)
Visual Models in Analogical Problem Solving (2005) (29)
What Has History to Do with Cognition? Interactive Methods for Studying Research Laboratories ∗ (2004) (29)
Architects in interdisciplinary contexts: Representational practices in healthcare design (2015) (28)
Kinesthetic pathways: a tabletop visualization to support discovery in systems biology (2011) (26)
Understanding the Creative Mind: A Review of Margaret Boden's Creative Mind (1995) (26)
Forms of Positioning in Interdisciplinary Science Practice and their Epistemic Effects (2010) (24)
Generic abstraction in design creativity: the case of Staatsgalerie by James Stirling (2010) (23)
Conceptual Change: Creativity, Cognition, and Culture (2009) (23)
Philosophy of and as interdisciplinarity (2013) (22)
Validating indicators of interdisciplinarity: linking bibliometric measures to studies of engineering research labs (2013) (21)
Epistemic Identities in Interdisciplinary Science (2017) (21)
Inconsistency, Generic Modeling, and Conceptual Change in Science (2002) (20)
The creative industry of integrative systems biology (2013) (19)
Modeling complexity: cognitive constraints and computational model-building in integrative systems biology (2018) (18)
Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research: Interdisciplinarity in Engineering Research and Learning (2014) (17)
The Process of Science: Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to Understanding Scientific Practice (2011) (16)
Cognitive Science, Mental Modeling, and Thought Experiments (2017) (16)
Situating distributed cognition (2014) (16)
Analogy in scientific discovery : The case of Johannes Kepler (2011) (15)
Peeking Inside the Black Box: A New Kind of Scientific Visualization (2018) (14)
Kuhn and the Cognitive Revolution (1998) (14)
Modeling Practices in Conceptual Innovation An Ethnographic Study of a Neural Engineering Research Laboratory (2012) (14)
The Method to "Meaning": A Reply to Leplin (1991) (14)
Empirical Philosophy of Science: Introducing Qualitative Methods into Philosophy of Science (2015) (13)
Conceptual Diagrams: Representing Ideas in Design (2002) (13)
Prolegomena to an Empirical Philosophy of Science (2015) (12)
Affective problem solving: emotion in research practice (2011) (10)
Agentive learning in engineering research labs (2004) (10)
Visual Re-Representation in Creative Analogies (2007) (10)
Diversity as Asset (2015) (10)
Dissenters in the Sanctuary (2007) (10)
Understanding the Creative Mind (1995) (9)
Rethinking correspondence: how the process of constructing models leads to discoveries and transfer in the bioengineering sciences (2017) (9)
Conceptual change and incommensurability: A cognitive-historical view (1997) (9)
Hybrid Devices: Embodiments of Culture in Biomedical Engineering (2017) (8)
Cognitive Partnerships on the Bench Tops (2004) (8)
“Why wasn't Lorentz Einstein?” An Examination of the Scientific Method of H. A. Lorentz (1986) (8)
GENDER WRIT SMALL: GENDER ENACTMENTS AND GENDERED NARRATIVES ABOUT LAB ORGANIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION IN A BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH SETTING (2005) (8)
Why is ‘incommensurability’ a problem? (1982) (8)
Empirical Philosophy of Science (2015) (8)
Cultural Models and their Interplay in Global Software-Engineering Practice (2015) (7)
Conceptual diagrams in creative architectural practice: the case of Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum (2012) (7)
A computational theory of generative modeling in scientific reasoning (1999) (7)
Beyond Motivation and Metaphor: ‘Scientific Passions’ and Anthropomorphism (2013) (7)
Transfer in Visual Case-Based Problem Solving (2005) (7)
Interdisciplinarities in Action: Cognitive Ethnography of Bioengineering Sciences Research Laboratories (2019) (6)
Design Problem Solving with Conceptual Diagrams (2005) (5)
Peeking Inside the Black Box: A New Kind of Scientific Visualization (2018) (5)
Cognitive partnerships on the bench top: designing to support scientific researchers (2008) (5)
Studying the Influence of Culture on Outsourced, Offshored Software-Testing Practice: An Ethnographic Approach (2011) (5)
Systems Biology Modeling Practices: Reflections of a Philosopher-Ethnographer (2017) (4)
Making Evidence Visible: Using Mock-ups in Healthcare Design (2013) (4)
Child's Play (1996) (4)
Scientific Discovery and Commensurability of Meaning (1989) (4)
A Computational Theory of Dynamical Modeling in Scientific Reasoning (1997) (4)
A case study from biomedical engineering (2003) (4)
A Cognitive Model of Visual Analogical Problem-Solving Transfer (2005) (4)
CREATING COGNITIVE-CULTURAL SCAFFOLDING IN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH LABORATORIES (2019) (3)
Counterfactuals in science and engineering (2007) (3)
Concepts Out of Theoretical Contexts (2015) (3)
Abduction and Scientific Discovery (1998) (3)
Promoting Model-based Reasoning in Problem-based Learning (2006) (3)
Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science (2022) (3)
Methods of Conceptual Change in Science: Imagistic and Analogical Reasoning (1990) (3)
Concept Formation and Commensurability (2001) (3)
The Roots of Epistemological ‘Anarchy‘ (1979) (3)
Creativity is in the mind of the creator (1994) (2)
Interdisciplinary problem- solving: emerging modes in integrative systems biology (2016) (2)
The Acting Person in Science Practice (2012) (2)
Laboratory learning , classroom learning : Looking for convergence / divergence in biomedical engineering (2002) (2)
Grounding Evidence in Design: Framing Next Practices (2017) (2)
Models and Simulations (2017) (2)
The cognitive work of metaphor and analogy in scientific practice (2015) (2)
Models and Analogies in Conceptual Restructuring (2009) (2)
Beyond the Meme (2019) (2)
Mesoscopic modeling as a cognitive strategy for handling complex biological systems. (2019) (1)
Transfer of Problem-Solving Strategy Using the Cognitive Visual Language (2005) (1)
Laboratory learning: Model-based reasoning in biomedical engineering research and instructional laboratories (2009) (1)
Book Review:Through Measurement to Knowledge: The Selected Papers of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, 1853-1926 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Kostas Gavroglu, Yorgos Goudaroulis (1993) (1)
Book Review:Particles and Waves: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science Peter Achinstein (1992) (1)
The Role of Diagrams and Diagrammatic Affordances in Analogy (2019) (1)
Bounded rationality, distributed cognition, and the computational modeling of complex systems (2020) (1)
Modeling complexity: cognitive constraints and computational model-building in integrative systems biology (2018) (0)
‘‘Ad hoc’’ is not a four‐letter word: H. A. Lorentz and the Michelson‐Morley experiment (2008) (0)
Nomic concepts, frames, and conceptual change : Experiment and Conceptual Change (2000) (0)
The Feeling Person (2010) (0)
The Cognitive Basis of Science: The View from Science (2001) (0)
“Groping for Trouts in a Peculiar River:” Challenges in Exploration and Application for Ethnographic Study of Interdisciplinary Science (2019) (0)
Validating Measures of Interdisciplinarity: Linking Bibliometric Measures to Ethnographic Studies of Engineering Research Labs (2011) (0)
Comprehending advice and inducements: evidence from conditionals and conjunctions. (2011) (0)
The ‘standard’ account of meaning (1984) (0)
Interactive session: preaching what you practice model-based reasoning in engineering (2004) (0)
Maxwell’s ‘Newtonian aether-field’ (1984) (0)
Lorentz’ ‘non-Newtonian aether-field’ (1984) (0)
Generic Abstraction in Design Creativity (2009) (0)
Preface. (1998) (0)
Forthcoming in Philosophy of Science COVER PAGE Title: Building Simulations from the Ground-Up: Modeling and Theory in Systems Biology Authors: (2013) (0)
Science as Psychology: Methods of Study (2010) (0)
Getting a Grip (2014) (0)
Laboratory Learning: Cognitive and Learning Practices in University Research Laboratories (2006) (0)
Cognitive Science and Education Research: Engaging Issues of Social Context (2008) (0)
Visual Reasoning in Discovery, Instruction and Problem Solving (2019) (0)
Learning from Empirical Approaches to HPS ( LEAHPS ) (0)
Validating indicators of interdisciplinarity: linking bibliometric measures to studies of engineering research labs (2012) (0)
Erratum to: ‘Meaning variance’ and ‘incommensurability’ (1984) (0)
Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Cognitive Conditions and Tools (2010) (0)
Erratum to: Philosophy of and as interdisciplinarity (2013) (0)
‘Meaning variance’ and ‘incommensurability’ (1984) (0)
Meaning in scientific practice (1984) (0)
Big Data: Overcoming Challenges to Facilitate Data Re-Use (2019) (0)
Collaboration in Design: Evolving Conceptual Diagrams (2003) (0)
Erratum to: Einstein’s ‘field’ (1984) (0)
Erratum to: Philosophy of and as interdisciplinarity (2013) (0)
Science as Psychology: Introduction: Science and Persons (2010) (0)
Introduction (1998) (0)
Scientific Creativity: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2019) (0)
Science as Psychology: The Learning Person (2010) (0)
Evidence-based design in practice : a thematic analysis (2014) (0)
Erratum to: Meaning in scientific practice (1984) (0)
Science as Psychology: The Positioning Person (2010) (0)
The Problem-Solving Person (2010) (0)
Science as Psychology: References (2010) (0)
Vertaling van: H.A. Lorentz, On the Theory of the Reflection and Refraction of Light (1997) (0)
Searching for Solutions: Exploring the Validity of Laboratory Studies and Search-Based Problem Solving. (2003) (0)
Joseph C. Pitt & Marcello Pera (eds). Rational Changes in Science: Essays on Scientific Reasoning. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1987. Pp. xiii + 224. ISBN 9-02772-417-2. £49.50; $64.00. (1989) (0)
CONCEPTUAL C HANGE IN SCIENCE A ND IN SCIENCE E DUCATION (1989) (0)
The creative industry of integrative systems biology (2013) (0)
Erratum to: Maxwell’s ‘Newtonian aether-field’ (1984) (0)
Rethinking correspondence: how the process of constructing models leads to discoveries and transfer in the bioengineering sciences (2017) (0)
Turning Experiments intoObjects : The Cognitive Processes Involved in the Design of a Lab-ona-Chip Device (0)
Barriers and Models: Comments on Margolis and Giere (1990) (0)
Erratum to: The ‘standard’ account of meaning (1984) (0)
Cognitive Science and Education Research: Engaging Issues of Social Context - eScholarship (2008) (0)
Science as Psychology: Epilogue: Science as Psychology: A Tacit Tradition and Its Implications (2010) (0)
Science as Psychology: The Person Negotiating Cultural Identities (2010) (0)
How DOORKNOB Gets Its Meaning (2005) (0)
Erratum to: Faraday’s ‘lines of force’ (1984) (0)
Book Review:From Maxwell to Microphysics: Aspects of Electromagnetic Theory in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century Jed Z. Buchwald (1987) (0)
Visual Reasoning in Modeling and Design (2009) (0)
One Georgia Tech: The Liberal Arts and 21st Century Innovation and Learning (2014) (0)

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