by Albert Major

Introduction to Cognitive Science

What is Cognitive Science?

Cognitive Science is the scientific interdisciplinary study of the mind

Cognitive Science is closely related to AI

Cognitive Scientists view the mind as an information processor that represents and transforms information

Central questions:

• What is the mind?
• What is cognition?
• How does the mind give rise to behavior?
• How is information represented and processed by the brain?

Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field

What is a representation?

Representations are symbolic for a concept → surrogate that refers to a referent

semantic is the study of meaning