Cognitive Science is the study of how we perceive, act, and reason about and form beliefs about
our
environment. It is an interdisciplinary approach to study the brain, mind and behaviour by
embracing
neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, linguistics and anthropology to create cognitive models.
It is
playing an increasingly important role in many areas of engineering and technology like
artificial
intelligence, cyborg intelligence, human factors, usability engineering, creativity-support
systems,
movies, music cognition, assistive systems, brain-computer interfaces, serious games, and so on.
The CogSci lab at IIIT is further divided into departments, depending on the research topics
being
worked on. Each group is headed by one faculty member.