cognitive science

American  

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.

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cognitive science British  

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

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Example Sentences

According to his UC Davis online biography, Abou-Najm was a double major in computer science and cognitive science, with a minor in mathematics.

From Los Angeles Times

As philosophers of cognitive science, we supplement thousands of years of philosophical thinking about this issue by drawing on a mountain of experimental evidence that simply was not available to past thinkers.

From Scientific American

“He was regarded as one of the major researchers and theoreticians in artificial intelligence and cognitive science.”

From New York Times

Abramson, who is majoring in cognitive science and hopes to graduate from Yale next fall, said it’s scary to file a lawsuit against a university she’s still attending as a student.

From Washington Post

Unlike the new olfactory map, however, color space does not rely on words, notes Asifa Majid, a professor of cognitive science at the University of Oxford, who was not involved in the studies.

From Scientific American