Abstract

EIFLER SARAIVA, Caroline Andréia  and  DE LIMA ARGIMON, Irani I.. The computer science and the cognitive science: a similarity parallel. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2007, vol.12, pp. 150-155. ISSN 1806-5821.

The aim of the present paper was to present the relations between the Cognitive Science Area and the Computer Science Area, making a parallel between their conceptions. Historical aspects of each science were approached, as well as their implications, censures and definitions. It was identified evidences of a great search on the processes of the mind in both knowledge areas, creating a correlation of views, in which the mind follows the functioning of a computer and the computer recreates mind's functions. In this context, the Cognitive Science, intends to find a unificated Cognition theory, putting all the knowledge areas together around mind's study. © Ciências & Cognição 2007; Vol. 12: ??-??.

Keywords : cognitive science; computer science; artificial inteligence; neural nets; conexionism.

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