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social science subjects > social research > philosophy and the social sciences > cognitive sciences, neurosciences, and social explanation > cognitive science
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cognitive science  

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  • Cognitive science is the discipline or collection of disciplines that scientifically studies knowledge and knowing in intelligent entities, including humans, nonhuman animals, and synthetic computational entities, such as robots. Cognition includes perception, thinking, learning, memory, reasoning and problem solving, and linguistic and nonlinguistic communication. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science; Cognitive Science]

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