Significance of HCI in Cognitive Science

Abstract

Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary and scientific study of the mind and its processes. Examining the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition takes place. Cognitive scientists study behaviour and intelligence, with a focus on how nervous systems represent, process, and transform information. Mental faculties of cognitive scientists include language, perception, memory, attention, reasoning, and emotion; to understand these faculties, cognitive scientists borrow from fields such as linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology. The typical analysis of cognitive science spans many levels of organization, starting from learning and decision to logic and planning; from neural circuitry to modular brain organization. The fundamental concept of cognitive science is that "thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures. The paper describes how the study of Cognitive science plays a vital role in building a successful Human- Computer Interaction system. Further, it also explains that why cognitive science is involved in this vast topic called Human-Computer Interaction.