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July 22, 2002
A: FROM MENTOR GOPIKA CHANDRA, MD AT UIC IN CHICAGO
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of mind
and intelligence,
involving philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence,
neuroscience,
linguistics, and anthropology. In the mid-1950s, researchers
in various fields
began to develop theories of mind based on complex representations
and
computational procedures, this lead to the emergence of Cognitive
Science. Its
organizational origins are in the mid-1970s when the Cognitive
Science Society
was formed and the journal Cognitive Science began. People
intersted in this
field can work innovatively in developing various computational
software
programs like DIAGNOSER(An educational computer program designed
to help
teachers and students understand the reasoning processes a
student uses),
Worldnet etc. They can be also involved in medicine working
as
Psycholinguistics,Child Psychotherapists etc. One can be also
involved as an
academician.
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