Cognitive science

Cognitive Science is the scientific study of the mind and brain and how they give rise to behavior. The field is highly interdisciplinary and is closely related to several other areas, including psychology (especially cognitive psychology), artificial intelligence, linguistics and psycholinguistics, philosophy (especially philosophy of mind), neuroscience, logic, robotics, anthropology and biology (including biomechanics).

Related Topics:
Psychology - Cognitive psychology - Artificial intelligence - Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - Philosophy - Philosophy of mind - Neuroscience - Logic - Robotics - Anthropology - Biology - Biomechanics

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The field originated in the 1950s from a number of researchers in psychology. The dominiant school of thought in psychology at that time was behaviorism, which believed that mental phenomena could not be directly observed, and therefore, that they were not a suitable object for the study of behavior. Cognitive scientists, however, took on a functionalist view of the mind/brain, and thought of mental phenomena in terms of information processing.

Related Topics:
Psychology - Behaviorism

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