Editing Cognitive science (section)

{{short description|Interdisciplinary scientific study of cognitive processes}}
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[[File:Cognitive Science Hexagon.svg|250px|thumb|Figure illustrating the fields that contributed to the birth of cognitive science, including [[Philosophy]], [[linguistics]], [[neuroscience]], [[artificial intelligence]], [[anthropology]], and [[Cognitive psychology|psychology]]<ref name="Miller2003">{{Cite journal |author-link=George Armitage Miller |last=Miller |first=George A |date=2003-03-01 |title=The cognitive revolution: a historical perspective |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661303000299 |journal=Trends in Cognitive Sciences |language=en |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=141–144 |doi=10.1016/S1364-6613(03)00029-9 |pmid=12639696 |s2cid=206129621 |issn=1364-6613 |access-date=5 February 2023 |archive-date=21 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121185812/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661303000299 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref>]]

'''Cognitive science''' is the [[interdisciplinary]], scientific study of the [[mind]] and its processes.<ref>{{cite web |quote = Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of researchers from Linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, computer science, and anthropology that seek to understand the mind. |url=http://www.aft.org/newspubs/periodicals/ae/summer2002/willingham.cfm |title = Ask the Cognitive Scientist |website = American Federation of Teachers |date = 8 August 2014 |access-date = 25 December 2013 |archive-date = 17 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917085214/http://www.aft.org/newspubs/periodicals/ae/summer2002/willingham.cfm |url-status = live }}</ref> It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of [[cognition]] (in a broad sense). Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include [[perception]], [[memory]], [[attention]], [[reasoning]], [[language]], and [[emotion]]. To understand these faculties, cognitive scientists borrow from fields such as [[psychology]], [[economics]], [[artificial intelligence]], [[neuroscience]], [[linguistics]], and [[anthropology]].<ref name="stanford1">[[Thagard, Paul]], [http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/entries/cognitive-science/ Cognitive Science] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715135221/https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/entries/cognitive-science/ |date=15 July 2018 }}, ''[[The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]'' (Fall 2008 Edition), [[Edward N. Zalta]] (ed.).</ref> The typical analysis of cognitive science spans many levels of organization, from learning and decision-making to logic and planning; from [[neuron|neural]] circuitry to modular brain organization. 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."<ref name="stanford1"/>