By "cognition," we mean "thinking," more or less.Thus, the name "The Cognition and Language Laboratory," has a deliberately broad range. There are several reasons for this. One is that language is difficult to study in isolation from thought (though people have tried!). How can one separate linguistic vocabulary from knowledge about what things are? Simply seeing a puppy run down the street and saying "dog" requires a lot of things (sight, object recognition, long-term memories about dogs, the social(?) desire to name things aloud, etc.) that aren't, strictly speaking, language. Similarly, many really interesting linguistic behaviors seem to involve more than just language (read more about that on the language page). As this website grows, this page will hopefully develop into a comprehensive resource for information about cognitive science. As a start, here are a few blog entires that Josh wrote about aspects of cognition: Do you see what you see (a post on visual cognition) How do cats remember where they are? (observations) A follow-up to the first post on cat cognition.
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