Cognitive Science

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21 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Cognitive Science. They span 28 subdomains — sort by that column to group them, or click any subdomain to filter to it.

Abstraction	Subdomain	Description
2.5D (visual perception)	Computational VisionVisual Perception	Perception of the physical environment is limited because of visual and cognitive issues.
ACT-R	Cognitive Architectures	A cognitive architecture that explains and predicts human task behavior by coordinating specialized modules through limited-capacity buffers and production rules over declarative chunks.
Approximate number system	Numerical Cognition	A nonsymbolic cognitive system that represents the approximate numerosity of a set.
Basic Category	Categorization	A cognitively informative category level that balances shared features among members with useful differentiation from neighboring kinds.
Categorical perception	—	A perceptual phenomenon in which continuous stimulus variation is experienced or discriminated as discrete categories, with enhanced sensitivity near category boundaries.
Cognitive Tradeoff Hypothesis	Comparative Cognition	The contested comparative-cognition hypothesis that human evolution traded exceptional immediate visuospatial memory for language-linked symbolic, chunking, and hierarchical capacities, inferred from task differences between humans and chimpanzees rather than directly demonstrated as a zero-sum neural exchange.
Cohort Model	Spoken Word Recognition	Recognize a spoken word incrementally by activating lexical candidates compatible with its onset, continuously selecting against mismatching competitors as acoustic evidence arrives, and integrating the surviving lexical interpretation with higher-level context.
Cue Validity	Category StructureFeature Diagnosticity	A cue's validity for a category is the chance of category membership among objects bearing that cue in a stated comparison population.
Depth Perception	Visual Perception and Psychophysics	Recover egocentric distance, depth order, and three-dimensional scene layout from two-dimensional retinal projections by exploiting binocular disparity, motion, occlusion, perspective, texture, oculomotor state, and their reliability-sensitive combination.
Dual-Character Concept	Concept Research	A dual-character concept permits both concrete-feature and abstract-value criteria to guide membership judgments for the same category.
Exosomatic Memory	External MemoryDistributed Cognition	Intentionally encoded information outside the body that can be retrieved as a memory aid.
False Consensus Effect	Social Cognition	Agents overestimate how widely their own beliefs and behaviors are shared, projecting a self-anchored prior across a non-randomly sampled population.
Global workspace theory	Consciousness Science	A cognitive architecture in which selected information becomes conscious by being globally broadcast to many specialized unconscious processes.
Leabra	Computational Cognitive NeuroscienceNeural Network Models	Leabra is heavily influenced by and contributes to neural network designs and models, including emergent.
Prevalence Effect	Visual SearchHuman Factors	In repeated visual search, rarer targets are more likely to be missed when they are present, often as observers adjust target-declaration and search-stopping criteria.
Principle of Least Effort	Information BehaviorExperimental Language	Effort-sensitive choice among ways to meet a task, spanning a stronger historical minimization theory and a bounded human behavioral tendency.
Reading	Literacy and Cognitive ScienceReading Processes	Construct meaning from written or tactile language symbols by coordinating decoding, word recognition, linguistic knowledge, comprehension, fluency, and purpose.
Representational Momentum	Visual CognitionSpatial Memory for Dynamic Events	Measure the systematic displacement of a remembered terminal state forward along an object's or pattern's implied dynamics after the display stops.
Theory of Indispensable Attributes	Perceptual Organization	Identify a perceptual modality's indispensable organizational media by testing which attribute collapses perceived numerosity when its separations are removed, then describe how features group elements distributed over those media into phenomenal partitions.
Verbal Reasoning	Cognitive Psychology	Reasoning that represents premises, relations, alternatives, and conclusions primarily through words and language structure, requiring interpretation and inference beyond mere vocabulary or fluency while remaining sensitive to language knowledge and task format.
Visual reasoning	Visual Spatial Reasoning	Reach conclusions by constructing, inspecting, and transforming mental or external spatial representations rather than relying only on propositional language.