CGSC 2001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Hemoglobin, Local Field Potential, Strategic Dominance
31 Jan 2017
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Cognitive science is interdisciplinary: linguistics, psychology, philosophy, ai, neuroscience and anthropology (sloan report) Philosophy was judged as a weak connection. It is now becoming a thriving sub discipline. Psychology theories are typically predictions of behaviour. Neuroscience has many different levels from systems and pathways in the brain to membranes, molecules and ions in the brain. Neurons communicate through the synaptic gap (chemical or electrical) The levels of neuroscience organization in the brain maps very closely to the different levels of organization in the brain. The fields and subfields that cognitive science draws on differ from one another in 3 dimensions: illustrated by the sub-fields of neuroscience. It studies the brain at many different levels and these levels are organized into a hierarchy: different techniques and tools that cognitive scientists can use. For example, pet and fmri: exemplified by the different sub-fields of psychology. The different sub- fields study cognition at a high level of organization.
