Its faculty represents a wide range of backgrounds from cognitive psychology to computational neuroscience, and its affiliations with other departments make interdisciplinary studies of the mind almost second nature. Cognitive science explores such mental abilities as perception, recognition, categorization, memory, reasoning and problem-solving, motor control, speech, language, and communication. Linguistics focuses on the nature of human language and its theoretical, descriptive, and behavioral bases.
Language also serves as a window into human cognition.
The approaches of a variety of disciplines, including cognitive psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, philosophy, and anthropology, are all brought to bear on common problems of mind, brain, and language.