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| | DockGreen | May 28, 2006 6:55am | I'd had cognitive science described to me as a blend of many different disciplines - psychology, linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and on.
What directions could this field of study take in the (near?) future? Or, what directions would you like to see it move in? |
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|  boyjester | Jun 12, 2006 2:10pm | | this is the closest area. to what ive been into for a decade or more . that shamanic or primative healing or to put it another way psychology, athropology, and the placebo effect of all we belive ! |
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Sponsor |  fassin | Jun 25, 2006 1:56pm | boyjester : I'm not sure I'd consider what you just described to be cognitive science, perhaps medical anthropology.
Traditional cog sci has focused on modelling human thought by means of computer software, in other words trying to develop AI. Modern cog sci, dominated by a bottom-up approach is less concerned with actually modelling but rather about understanding human thought processes and how they relate to a wide variety of fields, practices and traditions. Cognitive science graduates can be found working in fields such as usability, ergonomics, accessibility and supporting people with handicaps. They can help assess human behavior under stress in certain environments, or consider the best layout of an office to best support the people working there just to mention some of the things we do. I work as a web designer and my speciality is usability, user-experience oriented design and interaction design.
In every situation when you need the view of someone who has a technical as well as behavioral understanding of interaction, a cog sci grad is a good choice. |
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| | | DockGreen | Oct 11, 2006 2:37pm | I remember reading a book called 'Being There' by Andy Clark, all about the type of cognition that we have as humans and how this 'embodied'-ness relied on emotions to ground our experiences.
He seemed to be saying that to have 'true' conscious agents that can function in the real world, they need an emotional sense to underpin higher order abilities like info processing. |
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