10 Facts About Cognitive science

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One of the fundamental concepts 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.

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Goal of cognitive science is to understand and formulate the principles of intelligence with the hope that this will lead to a better comprehension of the mind and of learning.

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Cognitive science has a prehistory traceable back to ancient Greek philosophical texts; Modernist philosophers such as Descartes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Benedict de Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, Pierre Cabanis, Leibniz and John Locke, rejected scholasticism while mostly having never read Aristotle, and they were working with an entirely different set of tools and core concepts than those of the cognitive scientist.

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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.

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Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field with contributors from various fields, including psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy of mind, computer science, anthropology and biology.

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Cognitive science is a large field, and covers a wide array of topics on cognition.

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However, it should be recognized that cognitive science has not always been equally concerned with every topic that might bear relevance to the nature and operation of minds.

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Cognitive science has given rise to models of human cognitive bias and risk perception, and has been influential in the development of behavioral finance, part of economics.

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Fields of cognitive science have been influential in understanding the brain's particular functional systems ranging from speech production to auditory processing and visual perception.

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Some of the more recognized names in cognitive science are usually either the most controversial or the most cited.

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