CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Situated Cognition, Pragmatics, Cultural Anthropology
1 Mar 2017
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Long history before cog sci: philosophy, computer science. Cognitive neuroscience: the relationship between neurons and the brain. Subject matter: characterized by its own subject matter, natural minds, mostly human, broadly interested in cog functioning, even when it is erroneous. Methods: laboratory experimentation, statistical analysis, computer cog modeling. Cognitive psychology: broad field of basic research in human internal mental processes. Human factors/human-computer interaction (hci: how people psychologically interact with artifacts (human-designed things), such as user interfaces. Evolutionary psychology: how our evolutionary history has made our minds what they are. Comparative psychology: animal cognition, sometimes comparing it to human. Not enough model building: can"t play 20 questions with nature and win. Methodologically limited: cognitive science is possible because psychology wont innovate to embrace the methods of the other fields. Subject matter: big questions, what our concepts mean, otherwise quite broad. When someone describes something to you: conceptual analysis.
