cognitive science

noun

1. the study of the precise nature of different mental tasks and the operations of the brain that enable them to be performed, engaging branches of psychology, computer science, philosophy, and linguistics.

cognitive science

noun

1. the scientific study of cognition, including elements of the traditional disciplines of philosophy, psychology, semantics, and linguistics, together with artificial intelligence and computer science

Example Sentences

In fact, a 2017 study led by Elise Piazza, now a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, found that the entire timbre of the voice perceptibly changes when it’s directed at an infant.

From Popular-Science

For instance, Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, author of How the Mind Works and other popular books about cognitive science, wasn’t sold on either thesis.

From Nautilus

Drawing on extensive cognitive science research — much of it his own — Solms argues that Freud’s theories anticipate some key findings in current brain research.

From Washington Post

Pymetrics’s core product is a suite of 12 games that it says are mostly based on cognitive science experiments.

From MIT Technology Review

Brain and cognitive sciences for understanding understanding.

From MIT Technology Review

Andrew immediately tells the “shrink” that cognitive science will put psychiatrists out of work in the future.

From The Daily Beast

The novel might be a metafiction in the style of John Barth, who has also in his eighties been influenced by cognitive science.

From The Daily Beast

It is also a useful introduction to the history of knowledge, aesthetics, and most likely cognitive science.

From Project Gutenberg