Skip to main content  Cognitive Science  What Is Cognitive
Science?  Cognitive Science is a discipline which studies
cognition as a form of information processing. It draws on such
fields as cognitive and physiological psychology, philosophy,
computer science, linguistics and neuroscience. The problems
examined by cognitive scientists include the nature of
perception and memory, the neural processes that are involved in
complex capacities (for instance reasoning, language, knowledge,
intelligence), and the computational techniques that can serve
to model these capacities.  The Study of Cognitive Science
Cognitive science studies cognition from the point of view of
information processing. It is an interdisciplinary field, in
that it combines research from the sciences, the humanities, and
the social sciences. An undergraduate major in cognitive science
usually involves an introduction to the discipline itself,
followed by "core" courses that introduce students to key
theoretical issues, as well as by a series