Title: Cognitive Science Minor
Location: US
Company: Education
Cognitive science is a multidisciplinary field of research about the nature of cognition (thinking). Cognitive science involves many levels of examination, from theoretical models of the structure of cognitive processes, to basic neuroscience, to measures of behavior from which we infer cognitive structures and processes, to computer modeling of these processes. Unifying the field is the importance of abstract thinking (as mental processes are unobservable) and an understanding of philosophical issues related to the study of mental processes, action, and perceptual experience.
A minor in cognitive science would be of interest to anyone curious about the mind, the nature of the human experience of reality, the roles of language, emotion, biology, and social context in this experience, our understanding of cognition in other organisms, and artificial intelligence. In particular, the minor complements its constituent disciplines by flexibly offering an integrative, interdisciplinary context of study.
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