Editing Cognitive science (section)

===Interdisciplinary nature===
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field with contributors from various fields, including [[psychology]], [[neuroscience]], [[linguistics]], [[philosophy of mind]], [[computer science]], [[anthropology]] and [[biology]]. Cognitive scientists work collectively in hope of understanding the mind and its interactions with the surrounding world much like other sciences do. The field regards itself as compatible with the physical sciences and uses the [[scientific method]] as well as [[simulation]] or [[model (abstract)|modeling]], often comparing the output of models with aspects of human cognition. Similarly to the field of psychology, there is some doubt whether there is a unified cognitive science, which have led some researchers to prefer 'cognitive sciences' in plural.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Miller | first1 = G. A. | year = 2003 | title = The cognitive revolution: a historical perspective | journal = Trends in Cognitive Sciences | volume = 7 | issue = 3| pages = 141–144 | doi = 10.1016/S1364-6613(03)00029-9 | pmid=12639696| s2cid = 206129621 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Ferrés|first1=Joan|last2=Masanet|first2=Maria-Jose|date=2017|title=Communication Efficiency in Education: Increasing Emotions and Storytelling|journal=Comunicar|language=es|volume=25|issue=52|pages=51–60|doi=10.3916/c52-2017-05|issn=1134-3478|doi-access=free|hdl=10272/14087|hdl-access=free}}</ref>

Many, but not all, who consider themselves cognitive scientists hold a [[functionalism (philosophy of mind)|functionalist]] view of the mind—the view that mental states and processes should be explained by their function – what they do.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Polger |first=Thomas W. |date=2012 |title=Functionalism as a philosophical theory of the cognitive sciences |url=https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcs.1170 |journal=WIREs Cognitive Science |language=en |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=337–348 |doi=10.1002/wcs.1170 |pmid=26301466 |issn=1939-5086|url-access=subscription }}</ref> According to the [[multiple realizability]] account of functionalism, even non-human systems such as robots and computers can be ascribed as having cognition.{{cn|date=September 2024}}