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cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Cognitive science

Cognitive science is usually defined as the scientific study either of mind or of intelligence (e.g. Luger 1994). Practically every introduction to cognitive science also stresses that it is highly interdisciplinary; components of cognitive science include psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, computer science, robotics, anthropology and biology. Cognitive science - History. psychology, neuroscience, Neural Darwinism, Society of Mind theory, cognitive science of ...

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Cognitive science - Scope of cognitive science

Cognitive science - Research methods

cognitive science: Encyclopedia II - Cognitive science - Principles of Cognitive Science Cognitive science - Approaches. There are several approaches of study in the field of cognitive science including symbolic, connectionist, and dynamic systems. Symbolic - That intelligence can be explained by means of systematic, discrete instructions not unlike the way in which a computer works. Connectionist - The means of explanation is by using artificial neural networks. Dynamic Systems - Cognition can be explained by means of a continuous system in which everything is interrelated, not unlike the Watt Governor. < ...

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Cognitive science of mathematics - Topics

cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Unsolved problems in cognitive science

There are fewer celebrated findings than unsolved problems in cognitive science; however one can list: How much human intervention is needed to produce a cognition? What is the relationship of personhood to cognition? Why is it currently so much more difficult for a machine to recognize a human than for a cat to recognize its owner? Why is the conceptual horizon wider for some than for others? What is consciousness? Many of these questions are attempts at a ...

cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Cognitive and Brain Science Unit

The Medical Research Council's Cognitive and brain imaging unit is a branch of the larger Medical Research Council. Based in Cambridge, England since its creation during WWII it remains at the forefront of its field. Cognitive and Brain Science Unit - Unit History. Established in 1944, the Unit is one of the largest and most long-lasting contributors to the development of psychological theory and practice. Its origins lie within the Industrial Fatigue Research Board that was set up during the First World W ...

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cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Cognitive linguistics

In linguistics and cognitive science, cognitive linguistics (CL) refers to the currently dominant school of linguistics that views the important essence of language as innately based in evolutionarily-developed and speciated faculties, and seeks explanations that advance or fit well into the current understandings of the human mind. The guiding principle behind this area of linguistics is that language creation, learning, and usage must be explained by reference to concepts in regard to human cognition in general —the ...

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Cognitive linguistics - Areas of study

cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Cognitive psychology

Cognitive psychology is the psychological science that studies cognition, the mental processes that underlie behavior, including thinking, deciding, reasoning, and to some extent motivation and emotion. This covers a broad range of research domains, examining questions about the workings of memory, attention, perception, knowledge representation, reasoning, creativity and problem solving. The term came into use with the publication of the book Cognitive Psychology by Ulric Neisser in 1967. There he gives a very broad definition ...

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Cognitive psychology - Related lists

cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Categorization

For Wikipedia's categorization projects, see Wikipedia:Categorization. Categorization is the process in which ideas and objects are recognised and understood. Categorization implies that objects are grouped into categories, usually for some specific purpose. Ideally, a category illuminates a relationship between the subjects and objects of knowledge. Categorization is fundamental in decision making and in all kinds of interaction with the environment. There are, h ...

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cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Cognotechnology

Cognotechnology is an emerging field that is technology applied to the cognitive domain, and is the result of a convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology and information technology, according to Gerald Yonas, vice president and principal scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico (US Department of Energy). While only a nascent field, the director of the prestigious US National Science Foundation, Rita Colwell, stated in 2003 that "the interface between nano, bio, info and cognotechnology is where the exciting discoveries are occurring."^Including:

Cognotechnology - Potential applications

cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Consciousness

Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise such key features as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. It is a subject of much research in philosophy of mind, psychology, neurology, and cognitive science. Some philosophers divide consciousness into phenomenal consciousness, which is experience itself, and access consciousness, which is the processing of the things in experience (Block 2004). Others consider ...

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cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Cognitivism psychology

In psychology, cognitivism is a theoretical approach to understanding the mind, which argues that mental function can be understood by quantitative, positivist and scientific methods, and that such functions can be described as information processing models. Cognitivism psychology - Theoretical approach. Cognitivism has two major components, one methodological, the other theoretical. Methodologically, cognitivism adopts a positivist approach and the belief that psychology can be (in principle) fully explain ...

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cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Analytic philosophy

Analytic philosophy is the dominant philosophical movement in University philosophy departments in English-speaking countries, although one of its founders, Gottlob Frege, was German, and many of its leading proponents, such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rudolf Carnap, Kurt Gödel and Karl Popper, were Austrian. Logic and philosophy of language were central strands of analytic philosophy from the beginning, although this dominance has diminished greatly. Several lines of thought originate from the early, language-and-logic part of th ...

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Analytic philosophy - Natural language

cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Anne Treisman

Anne Treisman is a psychologist, working currently at Princeton University, Department of Psychology. She researches visual attention, object perception, and memory. One of her most influential works is certainly the feature integration theory of attention, published first in cooperation with G. Gelade in 1980. According to this model, different attention is responsible for binding different features into consciously experienced wholes. Treisman and Gelade were able to explain a large body of experimental data and at the same t ...

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cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Cognitive dissonance

Cognitive dissonance is a condition first proposed by the psychologist Leon Festinger in 1956, relating to his hypothesis of cognitive consistency. Cognitive dissonance is a state of opposition between cognitions. For the purpose of cognitive dissonance theory, cognitions are defined as being an any element of knowlege attitude, emotion, belief or value, as well as a goal, plan, or an interest. In brief, the theory of cognitive dissonance holds that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the human mind t ...

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cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Cognitive poetics

Cognitive poetics is a relatively new school of literary criticism that applies the principles of cognitive science, particularly cognitive psychology, to the interpretation of texts. It may be viewed as a specialized subdivision of reader-response criticism, and is also closely related to stylistics, whose application to literary study has been most popular in continental Europe. Like the New Critics, cognitive poetics engages in close analysis of the text; bu ...

cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Cognitive bias

A cognitive bias is any of a wide range of observer effects identified in cognitive science and social psychology including very basic statistical, social attribution, and memory errors that are common to all human beings. Biases drastically skew the reliability of anecdotal and legal evidence. Social biases, usually called attributional biases affect our everyday social interactions. And biases related to probability and decision making significantly affect the scientific method which is deliberately designed to minimize such bias fr ...

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cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Affective science

Affective science is the scientific study of emotion. Disciplines related to this interdisciplinary field include: Affective neuroscience Psychology Psychophysiology Cognitive science Affective Computing Other related archivesAffective Computing, Affective neuroscience, Cognitive science, Psychology, Psychophysiology, emotion

cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Cognitive neuropsychology

Cognitive neuropsychology is a branch of neuropsychology that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relates to specific psychological processes. It places a particular emphasis on studying the cognitive effects of brain injury or neurological illness with a view to inferring models of normal cognitive functioning. Cognitive neuropsychology - History. The modern science of cognitive neuropsychology emerged during the 1960s. However there have been a series of inf ...

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cognitive science: Encyclopedia - Institute of Noetic Sciences

Founded in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the Institute of Noetic Sciences explores the frontiers of consciousness through rigorous scientific research, bridges science and spirit, and seeks to support a fundamental shift in human consciousness to create a world grounded in freedom, wisdom and love. The Institute publishes a quarterly review call Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness. It is a membership organization with 30,000 members worldwide. The headquarters are in Petaluma, California, on a 200 acre (0.8 ...