Cognitive Science Society
The Cognitive Science Society is a professional society for the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science. It brings together researchers from many fields who hold the common goal of understanding the nature of the human mind. The society promotes scientific interchange among researchers in disciplines comprising the field of cognitive science, including artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and education.[1] The Society is a member of the Federation of Associations in Brain & Behavioral Sciences.
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Meetings
The group sponsors the annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, a meeting which hosts the latest theories and data from cognitive science researchers, for which it also publishes proceedings.[2] The first meeting of the conference was held in 1979 at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California.
In 1979, the society was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional organization in Massachusetts. The organizing committee included Roger Schank, Allan Collins, Donald Norman, and a number of other scholars from psychology, linguistics, computer science, and philosophy. It currently has over 1500 members, including a significant number from countries outside the United States.[3]
Journals published by the Cognitive Science Society
References
External links
- Cognitive Science Society Homepage
- About the Cognitive Science Society
- Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference
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