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The multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
A multi-disciplinary field studying human cognitive processes, including their relationship to technologically embodied models of cognition See also: Artificial Intelligence
The study of the nature of various mental tasks and the processes that enable them to be performed. Interdisciplinary study that attempts to explain the cognitive processes of humans and some higher animals in terms of the manipulation of symbols using computational rules. The field draws particularly on the disciplines of artificial intelligence, psychology (see cognitive psychology), linguistics, neuroscience, and philosophy. Some chief areas of research in cognitive science have been vision, thinking and reasoning, memory, attention, learning, and language processing. Early theories of cognitive function attempted to explain the evident compositionality of human thought (thoughts are built up of smaller units put together in a certain way), as well as its productivity (the process of putting together a thought from smaller units can be repeated indefinitely to produce an infinite number of new thoughts), by assuming the existence of discrete mental representations that can be put together or taken apart according to rules that are sensitive to the representations' syntactic, or structural, properties. This "language of thought" hypothesis was later challenged by an approach, variously referred to as connectionism, parallel-distributed processing, or neural-network modeling, according to which cognitive processes (such as pattern recognition) consist of adjustments in the activation strengths of neuronlike processing units arranged in a network
Is the interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence, embracing; philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology
A multi-disciplinary field of inquiry into the perceptions of the mind Cognitive science draws on methodology and learning's from linguistics, psychology, philosophy and computer science
Disciplines of Study [DoS]
The study of thinking and learning, currently being contributed to by researchers in a wide variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary fields from developmental psychology to medicine (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 1999 )
A science investigating how people learn rather than what they learn Prior knowledge and out-of-classroom experience help form the foundation on which teachers build effective instruction Also referred to as the study of the mind
Study of the processes of intelligent reasoning, involving input from a number of disciplines, including: cognitive psychology, sciences, cognitive models, computer science, information science, linguistics, psychology
the study of how learning takes place
the field of science concerned with cognition; includes parts of cognitive psychology and linguistics and computer science and cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind
A multi-disciplinary field developed in the 20th century to study the processes and activities of the mind and brain, particularly those having to do with intellect, emotion, and rationality Some of the most important disciplines which contribute to cognitive science are philosophy, neuroscience, computer science, psychology, and linguistics Other fields, such as sociology and anthropology may also play a role in cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study which attempts to further our understanding of the nature of thought <Discussion> <References> William Willaford
The study of intelligence and intelligent systems, with particular reference to intelligent behavior as computation (Simon & Kaplan)

Related Terms

cognitive sciences
plural form of cognitive science
cognitive science

    Hyphenation

    cog·ni·tive sci·ence

    Turkish pronunciation

    kägnîtîv sayıns

    Pronunciation

    /ˈkägnətəv ˈsīəns/ /ˈkɑːɡnɪtɪv ˈsaɪəns/

    Etymology

    () The term cognitive science was coined by Christopher Longuet-Higgins in his 1973 commentary on the Lighthill report.
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