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This chapter provides readers with an overview of the scope and range of modern cognitive science. In the 1970s, the influential Sloan report depicted cognitive science as an interdisciplinary field including philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, anthropology, and linguistics. These fields have subsequently become interconnected in many ways. Two fields, (scientific) psychology and neuroscience, are picked as examples to describe the research questions that cognitive science encounters. In particular, the chapter explores the different scales and levels of explanation at which contemporary psychology and neuroscience operate, in order to illuminate the space of cognitive science.
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