COGNITIVE SCIENCE

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Meaning:

The field of science concerned with cognition; includes parts of cognitive psychology and linguistics and computer science and cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cognitive science" is a kind of...):

science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

Meronyms (parts of "cognitive science"):

cognitive neuroscience (the branch of neuroscience that studies the biological foundations of mental phenomena)

cognitive psychology (an approach to psychology that emphasizes internal mental processes)

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

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