Cognitive Science - Nature of Intelligence

COGNITIVE SCIENCE - NATURE OFlimits.
INTELLIGENCE            Consider the problem of
            Many people reading this articleremembering a phone number and recalling it later.
may not be familiar with the term ‘CognitiveThe problem can be approached in many ways.
Science’. But the term ‘ArtificialTwo of the ways are explained here. One
Intelligence’ may sound familiar, as its oftenapproach is to study the behavior through direct
heard term and its a booming research area.observation i.e. accuracy of the response could be
‘Cognitive Science’ may be considered asmeasured when the phone number is recalled by
opposite of ‘Artificial Intelligence’, asthe person. Another approach is to study the
former deals with study of intelligence in humanworking of individual neurons while the person is
,where as  later deals with intelligence ofrecalling the phone number. Neither of the
machines and the branch of computer scienceapproach on their own would solve the problem
which aims to create it.completely, as discussed before.
            Cognitive science, the term            Cognitive Science has yielded a
was coined by Christopeher Longuet – Higginsmultitude of practical applications. The area of
in 1973. It is an interdisciplinary field. TheRobotics has seen the development of new and
interdisciplines are Psychology, Neuro science,more sophisticated robots capable of executing
Linguistics, Philosophy of mind, Computer Science,complex tasks, thus making a positive economic
Anthropology, Biology and Physics. The objectiveimpact. Advances in Neuro science often result in
of Cognitive Science is to attain a completenew treatments for disorders such as Autism,
understanding of the mind/brain and its processes.Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s
            Attaining the completedisease. Cognitive theories in Psychology have
understanding of the mind/brain is not possible byprovided new therapies for the treatment of
single level analysis.  As the field is highlyanxiety and depression. Cognitive insights have
interdisciplinary, research often draws researchalso created an impact in education having led to
methods from different fields such as Psychologynew methods in the teaching of reading, writing
, Neuro Science , Computer Science etc., Any ofand other subjects.
the research methods on their own would not           Thus concentrating more on this
fully explain the process of brain. The relationalfield of research can yield much better outcomes
study of the outcomes of the researches canto improve our society both economically and
give a clear picture of process of brain, but to itspsychologically.