Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed (in faculties such as perception, language, memory, reasoning, and emotion), represented, and transformed in behaviour, (human or other animal) nervous system or machine (e.g., computer). Cognitive science consists of multiple research disciplines, including
psychology,
artificial intelligence,
philosophy,
neuroscience,
linguistics,
anthropology,
sociology, and
education.
[1] It spans many levels of analysis, from low-level learning and decision mechanisms to high-level logic and planning; from neural circuitry to modular brain organization. The term
cognitive science was coined by
Christopher Longuet-Higgins in his 1973 commentary on the
Lighthill report, which concerned the then-current state of
Artificial Intelligence research.
[2] In the same decade, the journal
Cognitive Science and the
Cognitive Science Society were founded.
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