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Cognitive Science
Combine psychology, neuroscience, computer science and linguistics to understand the mind.
What this field studies
Cognitive scientists treat the mind as something that can be modelled. They study attention, memory, language and decision-making, often by building computational models and testing them against human behaviour.
Questions researchers are asking
- How do we make good decisions when we don't have all the information?
- How does the brain predict what it is about to see or hear?
- Why is working memory so limited?
- Can a computer model capture how humans learn?