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Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary field of study focusing on mental processes in general and on cognition in particular. Although this minor is administratively housed in the Department of Psychology, it draws from many other disciplines as well, including philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, computer science and anthropology. The minor is designed to provide students interested in consciousness, mental processes and brain-mind issues with an interdisciplinary framework. The minor is particularly relevant for those students considering advanced degrees in virtually any area of psychology, as well as cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, medicine, neurobiology, neuroscience, anthropology, linguistics, biomedical engineering (brain imaging), or vision science. Consult the Psychology academic advisor or the Director of Cognitive Science for more information.
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Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary field that has arisen during the past decade at the intersection of a number of existing disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, and physiology. The shared interest that has produced this coalition is understanding the nature of the mind. This quest is an old one, dating back to antiquity in the case of philosophy, but new ideas are emerging from the fresh approach of Cognitive Science. Previously, each discipline sought to understand the mind from its own perspective, benefiting little from progress in other fields because of different methods employed. With the advent of Cognitive Science... common interests and theoretical ideas have overcome methodological differences, and interdisciplinary interaction has become the hallmark of this field.
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A minor in Cognitive Science requires six courses (20 credits). Three of the six courses are required for all Cognitive Science minors (Section 3a below), and three are advanced elective courses chosen by the student from the list that appears below (Section 3b). The list of courses below contains the courses in the Cognitive Science Minor, together with the number of credits and pre-requisites for each course. Changes in pre-requisites that are a part of this proposal are marked with an asterisk, and are discussed later in this section. [Pre-requisite changes for PSYC 220 and PSYC 301 are partly due to an independent change in the structure of the Psychology major.]
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Cognitive Science deals primarily with the decoding of human perception, attention and memory. The field emerged after World War II when early electronics and computer systems were being introduced with greater error from human operators. The academic field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) evolved as a cornerstone of Cognitive Science. HCI seeks to understand how humans interact with computers in terms of the knowledge transmitted between the two.
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The research of Indiana University Professor of Cognitive Science and Psychological and Brain Sciences Dr. Eliot Smith was reported by the New York Times as part of a new movement to use the web site Facebook for research. Facebook¹s network of 58 million active users and its status as the sixth-most-trafficked Web site in the United States have made it an irresistible subject for many types of academic research. Dr. Smith is using Facebook to study how people meet and learn more about potential romantic partners....More
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The Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) is located on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Rougeou Hall. It is designated by the Louisiana Board of Regents as one of six Centers of Excellence of the University.
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