{"id":7534,"date":"2019-05-22T15:57:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cognitive_science\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:57:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:57:54","slug":"cognitive_science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cognitive_science\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A multidisciplinary field of research that draws upon anthropology, artificial intelligence (e.g., symbolic information-processing models, neural networks, machine learning), cognitive psychology, computer sciences, epistemology, linguistics, neuroscience, and philosophy (especially philosophy of mind and of mathematics). &nbsp;Its overarching goal is to answer long-standing epistemological questions about the nature of knowledge, its sources and component parts, and how it develops. &nbsp;As a consequence of such a goal, it addresses a diversity of topics that include attention, consciousness, intuition, perception, problem solving, and reasoning. &nbsp;Cognitive science is a direct outcome of the so-called cognitive revolution that originated in the mid-1950s when there was an upsurge of interest in theories of mind based on complex representations and computational procedures. &nbsp;It became distinct from cognitive psychology with the formation of <a href=\"http:\/\/cognitivesciencesociety.org\/index.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/cognitivesciencesociety.org\/index.html&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cognitive Science Society<\/a> in the mid-1970s. &nbsp;In its relatively short existence, cognitive science has achieved much, particularly with regard to models of human cognitive bias and risk perception. &nbsp;It has been responsible for a new theory of the philosophy of mathematics, and a range of theories covering artificial intelligence, persuasion and coercion. &nbsp;Moreover, it has become firmly established as integral part of modern linguistics. &nbsp;Having become distinct from cognitive psychology, cognitive science is not always viewed in a positive light by cognitive psychologists. &nbsp;For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/fodor\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/fodor\/&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jerry Fodor<\/a> (1994) dismissed it with the following barbed remark: &#8220;Cognitive science is where philosophy goes when it dies&#8221; &nbsp;(p. 110) in a paper Concepts: A potboiler. <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Cognition<\/span>, 50, 95-113.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"analogical_reasoning\">Analogical reasoning<\/a>, <a href=\"artificial_intelligence_-ai-\">Artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a>, <a href=\"attention\">Attention<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_neuroscience\">Cognitive neuroscience<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_psychology\">Cognitive psychology<\/a>, <a href=\"consciousness\">Consciousness<\/a>, <a href=\"cybernetics\">Cybernetics<\/a>, <a href=\"hixon_symposium\">Hixon symposium<\/a>, <a href=\"interdiscipline\">Interdiscipline<\/a>, <a href=\"linguistics\">Linguistics<\/a>, <a href=\"monism\">Monism<\/a>, <a href=\"neural_net\">Neural net<\/a>, <a href=\"perception\">Perception<\/a>, <a href=\"problem_solving\">Problem solving<\/a>, <a href=\"psycholinguistics\">Psycholinguistics<\/a>, <a href=\"reasoning_-psychology-\">Reasoning (psychology)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multidisciplinary field of research that draws upon anthropology, artificial intelligence (e.g., symbolic information-processing models, neural networks, machine learning), cognitive psychology, computer sciences, epistemology, linguistics, neuroscience, and philosophy (especially philosophy of mind and of mathematics). &nbsp;Its overarching goal is to answer long-standing epistemological questions about the nature of knowledge, its sources and component parts, and &hellip; 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