Cognitive Science

Cognitive Science is a multidisciplinary science that studies the mind and

intelligence of a human. 

Psychology Neuroscience Artificial

It helps to monitor It is a study of how
Intelligence
the behavior of the the brain thinks and The development of
students. acts. artifacts that
perform similar
functions as human
thought.

Linguistics Philosophy Anthropology

The scientific study The study of the The study of human
of language. connection between ideas life and culture.
and explain that
connection in a reasoned
and logical way.

Cognitive science's scientist:

Jean Piaget (Psychologist)
"Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do."

Contributor in his theory of cognitive development that children think

differently than adults.
He defined egocentrism.
Stages of Cognitive Development are: 
1- The sensorimotor stage; 2-The preoperational stage; 3-The concrete
operational stage; 4- The formal operation stage.

Antonio Damasio (Neuroscience)

"We are not thinking machines that feel; we are feeling machines that think."

International leader in neuroscience.

He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of
Science.
His research has helped to elucidate the neural basis for feeling and emotions.
His work is on an understanding of the neural system which includes memory,
language, and consciousness.

Noam Chomsky (Linguistics)

" Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the
manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involve a process of free creation."

Father of Modern Linguistics.

Is known for the theory of Universal Grammar.
Contributed to the field of phonology.
Contributor of Cognitive Science.
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