Claim: Noam Chomsky was responsible for a new cognitivistic framework related to language.

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary , scientific study of the mind and its processes . It examines the nature , the tasks , and the functions of cognition . Cognitive scientists study intelligence and behavior , with a focus on how nervous systems represent , process , and transform information . Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include language , perception , memory , attention , reasoning , and emotion ; to understand these faculties , cognitive scientists borrow from fields such as linguistics , psychology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , neuroscience , and anthropology . The typical analysis of cognitive science spans many levels of organization , from learning and decision to logic and planning ; from neural circuitry to modular brain organization . The fundamental concept of cognitive science is that `` thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures . ''   The cognitive sciences began as an intellectual movement in the 1950s often referred to as the cognitive revolution .