Cognitive science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cognitive science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of how information concerning faculties such as perception, language, reasoning, and emotion, is represented and transformed in a (human or other animal) nervous system or machine (e.g., computer). It consists of multiple research disciplines, including psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, neuroscience, learning sciences,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 ofArtificial Intelligence research.^[2] In the same decade, the journalCognitive Science and the Cognitive Science Society were founded.^[3]

Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Principles 2.1 Levels of analysis 2.2 Interdisciplinary nature 2.3 Cognitive science: the term 3 Scope 3.1 Artificial intelligence 3.2 Attention 3.3 Knowledge, and Processing, of Language 3.4 Learning and development 3.5 Memory 3.6 Perception and action 4 Research methods 4.1 Behavioral experiments 4.2 Brain imaging 4.3 Computational modeling 4.4 Neurobiological methods 5 Key findings 6 Criticism 7 Notable researchers 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links