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simulated human. Transfer from one domain to the next is largely
a function of the degree to which the knowledge in the two
domains overlaps. The reason this is problematic for scientific
progress is that the domains typically used to study human
cognitive functioning in the laboratory are very different from
the domains of application in the real world. Laboratory domains
are mostly simple, abstract, and of short duration, whereas
real-world application domains are complex, situated, and of
long duration. Thus, in the field of cognitive science we must
look for ways to build bridges between laboratory and applied
contexts.  The second barrier I will emphasize here is a
disciplinary barrier. Cognitive science is a field of study
comprising seven subdisciplines: anthropology, artificial
intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy,
and psychology. These subdisciplines involve very different
methods, frameworks, and theories, and it i