From Jsarmi

Shared Knowledge or Shared Cognition=

Small groups and teams are social structures ubiquitous in work and personal life. The group experience brings together individuals who interact through communication events. Small group communication is the process through which individuals’ share their cognitive schemas with the other members of the group, ideas are constructed and reconstructed, and new schemas are shaped, all of which results in group level shared cognition. The similarity of shared understandings about task work and teamwork is an indicator of group performance.