Cognitive science: The art and its implications

Abstract

Contemporary cognitive science is the latest version of the century-long quest for a better understanding of the human mind and brain. various disciplines have brought together empirical methods and theoretical models from their fields of study to further this effort. This multidisciplinary convergence widely known today by the acronym NBIC(S) 1 is the general context for the present endeavor. Why is a journal with "Psychology" in its title concerned with this development? In fact, those were the founding fathers of psychology, physicist Hermann von Helmholtz and physician Wilhelm Wundt, who demonstrated the conviction that psychology as science can only be one of interdisciplinary kind. In the 20th Century, Jean Piaget gave psychology a central place among the sciences, because, in his view, only psychology studies the conscious mind that makes science and critical thinking possible. But he insisted that he was not a psychologist, explaining that he studied "epistemic" rather than "psychological" issues. In a similar vein, some psychologists would say today that they rather belong to a multidisciplinary cognitive community whereby adjective "cognitive" replaces here what Piaget called "epistemic" half a century ago. This is the case of authors participating with their papers in this special issue of Psychology in Russia. Many of them are not psychologists by training, and they do their professional work in fields as varied as mathematical physics, neuroimaging, molecular biology, and the pragmatics of communication. Nevertheless, their con-1 As in the name of the Complex of NBICS-technologies at the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", where the capitalized letters stay for Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology, Cognitive, and Social sciences.

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