cognitive science
is the interdisciplinary investigation of cognition by psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence (AI), and philosophy. Cognitive science treats reasoning, perception, and other cognitive processes as information-processing, involving the manipulation of mental representations. Cognitive scientists also hold either that these mental processes can be modelled by computers, or that these processes actually are computational processes (i.e. that the mind is a computer). One dominant (‘classical’) approach in cognitive science treats the computational processes as defined over a representational system in which the symbols have semantic and syntactic properties. ... ...
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