Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

The field of cognitive science is inherently multi?disciplinary. However, it is unclear to what extent truly interdisciplinary work occurs in cognitive science. That is, is cognitive science merely a collection of researchers from different disciplines working separately on commo n problems? Data gathered from a recent cognitive science conference are presented. Interestingly, a significant proportion of interdisciplinary collaborations were found. Analyses were also conducted on the impact of same vs. different backgrounds on the structure of collaborations, and It was found that interdisciplinary collaborations involved more equally distributed contributions among the authors than did intradisciplinary collaborations.