noun
Meaning 1
The multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior.
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Phrase guide
cognitive science
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noun
Meaning 2
the field of science concerned with cognition; includes parts of cognitive psychology and linguistics and computer science and cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind
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Broader terms: science, scientific discipline
History
Etymology
Coined by British chemist and cognitive scientist H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins in his commentary on the Lighthill report (1973).
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: ciència cognitiva — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Chinese Mandarin: 認知科學 /认知科学 (rènzhī kēxué) — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Czech: kognitivní věda — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Danish: kognitionsvidenskab — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Dutch: cognitiewetenschap — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Estonian: tunnetusteadus — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Finnish: kognitiotiede — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- French: sciences cognitives — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- German: Kognitionswissenschaft — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Hungarian: kognitív tudomány — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Hungarian: megismeréstudomány — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Hungarian: kognitológia — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Korean: 인지과학 (injigwahak) — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Polish: kognitywistyka — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Portuguese: ciência cognitiva — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Punjabi: ਬੋਧ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ (bodh vigiāna) — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Russian: когнити́вная нау́ка (kognitívnaja naúka) — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Russian: когнитиви́стика (kognitivístika) — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Spanish: ciencia cognitiva — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Swedish: kognitionsvetenskap — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Turkish: bilişsel bilim — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Ukrainian: когніти́вна нау́ка (kohnitývna naúka) — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Ukrainian: когнітиві́стика (kohnityvístyka) — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior
- Welsh: gwyddoniaeth wybyddol — multidisciplinary study of mind and behavior