Cognitive Science
People often ask me what I’m going to study when I go back to school in the fall. I say I’m going to study cognitive science, a statement which is always met with an enthusiastic “huh?”.
It turns out that most people have no idea what cognitive science is, so I feel I owe the world an explanation.
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field. It’s a mix of Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Linguistics and Philosophy. It’s the study of the brain (through the study of neuroscience, and the modeling of thought processes with computer programming), the mind (philosophy), and how the brain and the mind affect us (psychology, linguistics).
To me, it’s a mix of everything I find completely fascinating and I can hardly wait to start studying it.
