Cognitive science

Seana Coulson
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Cognitive science, the interdisciplinary study of cognitive phenomena, has its origins in philosophy and can be viewed as the empirical pursuit of age-old questions in the philosophy of mind. Perhaps the word which best captures the field of cognitive science is diversity. Cognitive scientists study a broad range of cognitive phenomena, including attention, perception, memory, language, learning, and reasoning. Moreover, researchers in cognitive science come from a wide set of backgrounds. The field draws from a number of disciplines including philosophy, linguistics, psychology, computer science, anthropology, sociology, and the neurosciences. However, one upshot of the varied nature of the disciplinary backgrounds of cognitive science researchers is the production of a number of complementary research methods.

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