ABSTRACT
Over the course of the last three decades or so, a new field of study, cognitive science, has emerged and developed. As Wilkinson and Patterson (1983) have characterized it, cognitive science is “a field of study at the intersection of linguistics, artificial intelligence, and psychology” (p. 4). Although it may be argued that other disciplines are also at this intersection, particularly anthropology and philosophy, there can be little argument with the notion that the new area represents an interdisciplinary synergy. As such, cognitive science has always been grounded in the basic theories, paradigms, and evidentiary proofs of the elemental disciplines that contribute to it. Not surprisingly, cognitive science has also had a great impact on the conceptual symbols and explanatory patterns found in the parent disciplines, most particularly, on the information-processing framework of cognitive psychology.
