Cognitive science is the scientific study of the human mind.

The field has an

interdisciplinary approach and uses ideas and methodologies from other related
fields such as psychology, linguistics, computer science, philosophy and
neuroscience.

The field of cognitive science includes studies on human and artificial

intelligence as well as human behaviour. Cognitive science aims at studying about
how any information is represented, assimilated, processed and transformed into
other information or action. It tries to understand the various activities
occurring in the nervous system and computer when they try to process the incoming
information for future use.

Let us understand this from a simple example. Suppose a person is given an address
and phone number to memorise and recall at a later date. When the person first sees
the data, there is some neuronal activity along with behavioural changes. To
understand the process of memorising the phone number and address you need to study
the change occurring in the human behaviour and the ongoing neuronal activity at
the same time. These two cannot be studied separately.

Cognitive science helps us to establish a relationship between the neuronal

activity and the resultant behavioural change. It analyses basic low level learning
to complex decision mechanisms, thinking and logical planning. The field tries to
understand the neuronal circuitry and the related brain organization which is
linked to memory and decision making.

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CS & Philosophy
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Philosophy interfaces with cognitive science in three distinct but related areas.
First, there is the usual set of issues that fall under the heading of philosophy
of science (explanation, reduction, etc.), applied to the special case of cognitive
science. Second, there is the endeavor of taking results from cognitive science as
bearing upon traditional philosophical questions about the mind, such as the nature
of mental representation, consciousness, free will, perception, emotions, memory,
etc. Third, there is what might be called theoretical cognitive science, which is
the a?empt to construct the foundational theoretical framework and tools needed to
get a science of the physical basis of the mind off the ground a task
which naturally has one foot in cognitive science and the other in philosophy.

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CS & Psychology
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Psychology is an academic and applied subject that involves the scientific study of
mental functions and human behaviour. It tries to analyse how a person thinks and
behaves as an individual and in society at the same time taking into account
physiological and biological aspects of behaviour. Psychology also studies
cognition, attention, memory apart from emotion, personality, intelligence, brain
functioning and interpersonal relationships.

Cognitive science and psychology are fields that work to understand the human mind
better. Cognitive science is concerned with the changes occurring in the nervous
system when an individual performs some high level cognitive function. It aims at
studying how different parts of the brain work in tandem to produce a particular
reaction to a given stimulus. The field is more research based. Psychology on the
other hand deals with people with feelings and does not look at them as research
objects only. It is more interventional in nature. It helps people to work on their
thinking to improve their behaviour in society.