Cognitive science

The study of mind or the study of thought, as if the mind is an information processor; hence, uses computers as an element of this science. Used to describe the study of intelligence and is closely related to cognitive psychology but includes the use of computer algorithms to simulate behavior, and is closely related to cybernetics. It embraces multiple research disciplines, including psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and biology. It relies on varieties of scientific methodologies (e.g. behavioral experimentation, computational simulations, neuroimaging, statistical analyses), and spans many levels of analysis of the mind (from low-level learning and decision mechanisms to high-level logic and planning, from neural circuitry to modular brain organization, etc.). The term cognitive science was coined by Christopher Longuet- Higgins in his 1973 commentary on the Lighthill report, on artificial Intelligence research.