Cognitive Science Research Area

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A Cognitive Science Research Area is a research area of the human mind (and human mental processes).



References

2018

  • (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cognitive_science Retrieved:2018-1-5.
    • Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes. [1] It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition (in a broad sense). Cognitive scientists study intelligence and behavior, with a focus on how nervous systems represent, process, and transform information. Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include language, perception, memory, attention, reasoning, and emotion; to understand these faculties, cognitive scientists borrow from fields such as linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology.[2] The typical analysis of cognitive science spans many levels of organization, from learning and decision to logic and planning; from neural circuitry to modular brain organization. The fundamental concept of cognitive science is that "thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures."

      The cognitive sciences began as an intellectual movement in the 1950s often referred to as the cognitive revolution.

  1. Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of researchers from Linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, computer science, and anthropology that seek to understand the mind. How We Learn: Ask the Cognitive Scientist
  2. Thagard, Paul, Cognitive Science, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).

2013