What is Cognitive Science?
Cognitive science is the science of mind and behavior
"Cognitive"
- Of or pertaining to cognition, or to the action or processes of knowing
- Understand knowledge acquisition and use is the key to understand the mind
Cognitive Science is the study of mind with special emphasis on use and acquisition of knowledge and information.
Implications:-
- An inter-disciplinary approach - Many scientific disciplines contribute to Cognitive Science
- A Computational Approach - Explain information processing in terms of neural computations.
Information Processing Everywhere...
Perception
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- Acquiring real time information about the surrounding environment
Language Use
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Makng use of information about systems, semantics and phonology
Reasoning
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Combining different sources of information, deriving new information, testing consistency of information, etc.
Action
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Making use of information in action planning and guidance
Memory
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Storing and retrieving information
Important point:
Cognitive Science is about how the mind processes information.
What is special about Cognitive Science?
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- Focuses on knowledge and information as the key to understanding the mind
- Interdisciplinary
- Computation Approach
- Individualism
- Multi-level explanation
What is Computation?
Rule-based manipulation of symbols
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