cognitive science

Cognitive science is most simply defined as the scientific study either of mind or of intelligence (e.g. Luger 1994). It is an interdisciplinary study drawing from relevant fields including psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, computer science, biology, and physics. The term cognitive science was coined by Christopher Longuet-Higgins in his 1973 commentary on the Lighthill report, which concerned the then-current state of Artificial Intelligence research. In the same decade, the journal Cognitive Science and the Cognitive Science Society began.
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Cognitive sciences The areas of medicine that study the nature and processes of mental activity–eg, neurology, psychiatry, psychology [more]Cognitive science - Community and Resources

Noun
1. the field of science concerned with cognition; includes parts of cognitive psychology and linguistics and computer science and cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind
(hypernym) science, scientific discipline
(part-meronym) cognitive neuroscience

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study which attempts to further our understanding of the nature of thought .
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