Cognition
Cognitive science: more accessible
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Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field informed by psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, and artificial intelligence. It seeks to integrate the insights of these disciplines and provide a unified perspective. To this end, it adopts a common conceptualization of minds as information processors, understanding cognition as the manipulation of internal representations.{{multiref | {{harvnb|Matlin|2013|pp=21–22}} | {{harvnb|Friedenberg|Silverman|Spivey|2022|pp=2–3}} | {{harvnb|Bermúdez|2014|pp=3, 85}} | {{harvnb|Thagard|2023|loc=Lead section, § 3. Representation and Computation}} }} |
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field informed by psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, and artificial intelligence. It seeks to integrate the insights of these disciplines and provide a unified perspective. To this end, it adopts a common conceptualization of minds as information processors, understanding cognition as the manipulation of internal representations.{{multiref | {{harvnb|Matlin|2013|pp=21–22}} | {{harvnb|Friedenberg|Silverman|Spivey|2022|pp=2–3}} | {{harvnb|Bermúdez|2014|pp=3, 85}} | {{harvnb|Thagard|2023|loc=Lead section, § 3. Representation and Computation}} }} |
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To bridge disciplinary and methodological divides between the different fields, it identifies distinct levels of analysis corresponding to different degrees of abstraction. For example, neuroscientific analysis of the electrochemical activity of brain areas belongs to a concrete level that deals with the biological mechanisms performing computations. By contrast, the psychological study of the roles of and interactions between high-level processes, such as perception, memory, and reasoning, adopts an abstract perspective. Cognitive scientists seek to |
To bridge disciplinary and methodological divides between the different fields, it identifies distinct levels of analysis corresponding to different degrees of abstraction. For example, neuroscientific analysis of the electrochemical activity of brain areas belongs to a concrete level that deals with the biological mechanisms performing computations. By contrast, the psychological study of the roles of and interactions between high-level processes, such as perception, memory, and reasoning, adopts an abstract perspective. Cognitive scientists seek to connect experimental findings with explanations and models to produce testable theories that link the different levels.{{multiref | {{harvnb|Matlin|2013|pp=21–22}} | {{harvnb|Groome|2005|pp=161–162}} | {{harvnb|Friedenberg|Silverman|Spivey|2022|pp=8–9}} | {{harvnb|Bermúdez|2014|pp=122–123}} }} |
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=== Other fields === |
=== Other fields === |
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