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- noun The interdisciplinary study of the mind, intelligence, and learning, including research in psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and artificial intelligence.
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- noun The multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior.
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- noun the field of science concerned with cognition; includes parts of cognitive psychology and linguistics and computer science and cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind
Etymologies
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The term cognitive science was coined by Christopher Longuet-Higgins in his 1973 commentary on the Lighthill report.
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