This section of the ANAT newsletter is a resource for art practitioners interested in science and science practitioners interested in art. It was initiated in order to inform our scientific serendipity focus during 1998. The following resources detailing conferences, exhibitions, online initiatives and specialist information, act as a gateway to science research in Australia and internationally.
Cognitive science is the discipline which attempts to understand the nature of thought.
The major contributing fields include, philosophy, psychology, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience and anthropology. There are two standard computational approaches to cognitive science. The second is known as connectionism and understands thought processes as a set of connections between nodes in a distributed network. Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary study. Besides, only in logic and mathematics do definitions ever capture concepts perfectly.