Editing Team (section)

== Team cognition ==

Team cognition has been defined as an "emergent state that refers to the manner in which knowledge important to team functioning is organized, represented, and distributed within team."<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = DeChurch | first1 = L.A. | last2 = Mesmer-Magnus | first2 = J.R. | year = 2010 | title = The cognitive underpinnings of effective teamwork: a meta-analysis | journal = Journal of Applied Psychology | volume = 95 | issue = 1| pages = 32–53 | doi=10.1037/a0017328 | pmid=20085405}}</ref>  This emergent state can manifest in two ways. Compositional emergence occurs when individual level cognition is similar in form and function to its manifestation at team-level. Compilational emergence, on the other hand, represents a greater degree of synergy among team members and represents a new-team level construct. As such, higher degrees of compilational emergence are more closely related to team process and performance than is compositional emergence.

Research into team cognition has focused on how teams develop mental models and [[transactive memory]] systems. Mental models refer to the degree in which team members have similar cognitive understanding of the situation and performance goals which include shared representations of the task.  Transactive memory systems relate to how knowledge is distributed among team members and retrieved in a coordinated fashion, the way that team member rely on knowledge that is possessed by other members and how knowledge sets are differentiated within a team.  The emergence of team cognition is thought to impact team effectiveness because it can positively affect a team's behavioural process, motivational states, and performance.

Team cognition consists of two broad types of content. Task related models are related to knowledge of the major duties and resources possessed by the team. Team-related models refer to interactions and interdependence among the team members.