Cognitive Sciences

Cognitive science is the study of the mind, including its structure and everything it does. It includes a variety of research sciences, including:

• Education, the study of how people learn
• Philosophy, the study of knowledge, reality, and existence
• Artificial intelligence, the study of thinking machines and systems
• Psychology, the study of behavior and the mind
• Neuroscience, the study of the nervous system
• Linguistics, the study of language
• Anthropology, the general study of the human society and culture

By taking a more general approach to the mind's intricacies, cognitive scientists are beginning to look beyond each discipline's preferences and biases, seeing the human mind for the complex structure and entity that it is. The goal of cognitive science is to understand the principles of intelligence with the hope that this will lead to better comprehension of the mind and of learning and to develop intelligent devices.