• Cognitive Science explores the nature of intelligent systems, focusing on formal theories of mind and information and seeks a better understanding of the mind, learning and teaching, cognitive skills, and the development of intelligent systems designed to augment human capacities in constructive ways.
  • The field is inherently interdisciplinary, with contributions from computer science, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, biology, anthropology, and other fields.
  • Both natural intelligence (in humans and in animals) and artificial intelligence fall within the scope of inquiry.
  • The field deals with aspects of complex cognition, computational models of thought processing, knowledge representation, dynamics of real-world engagement, and emergent behavior of large-scale interacting systems.