Cognitive Science

9 primes originate from Cognitive Science. 14 more draw from it as a secondary origin.

Primary members (9)

Primes whose canonical origin is Cognitive Science.

• Accommodation — Systems modify internal structure or behavior in response to external pressures.
• Analogy — Transfer structure between domains.
• Conceptual Blending — Combine ideas into new space.
• Decision — Committing to one alternative from a set under uncertainty and trade-off, collapsing open deliberation into a chosen path and foreclosing the others.
• Figure-Ground — Perceptual organization of a field into salient figure and receding ground.
• Interleaving — Mixing topics during practice to improve discrimination and retention.
• Pattern Completion (Filling the Incomplete) — Infer missing structure.
• Pattern Recognition — Identify regularities.
• Problem Space — Range of possibilities.

Also draws from Cognitive Science (14)

Primes whose canonical origin is elsewhere, but who list Cognitive Science among their alternate origin domains.

• Abstraction — Focus on core elements.
• Associative Memory — Content-addressable storage where a cue retrieves linked content.
• Bias — Systematic, directional error distinct from random noise.
• Cognitive Entrenchment — Rigid thinking patterns.
• Contextual Mode Switching — Adapt communication.
• Decomposition — Breaking a whole into parts that can be analyzed independently and recombined to reconstitute the whole, making complexity tractable through divide-and-conquer.
• Frame of Reference — Observational perspective.
• Learning Curve Effects — Unit cost falls predictably with cumulative production experience.
• Mental Model — Internal system representation.
• Metaphor — Conceptual mapping.
• Reductionism — Explaining a whole entirely in terms of its constituent parts.
• Representation — Model complex ideas.
• Schema — Structured knowledge framework.
• Sensemaking — Interpret ambiguous situations.