Nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and cognitive science are all converging technologies.

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There are ongoing efforts by cognitive science laboratories and companies to develop cognitive assessment and brain training software that will function on mobile phones and tablets.

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For Selmer Bringsjord, who heads RPI's department of cognitive science, getting a crack at Watson is like a car aficionado being tossed the keys to a souped-up Lamborghini.

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Officials with IBM and RPI say Watson's college tenure also will prepare RPI students for jobs in cognitive science and "big data, " a field where demand is quickly outpacing supply.

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But Duke cognitive science researcher Ruth Day, one of the panelists, had suggested that patients not only have to review the risks, but answer a quiz to make sure they understand.

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Some friends of mine in the cognitive science world agreed this could make some sense, as when one is a novice in a field, you have limited working memory about the topic.

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What I want to convey with the term science-help is that several of us are writing books about a range of topics in psychology and cognitive science that are also applicable to daily living.

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"For the last 20 years, the buzz about consciousness has been such that all kinds of smart people in all kinds of fields say this is mount Olympus, " says Daniel Dennett, the Tufts philosopher whose work has helped guide cognitive science.

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Where engineering in the 1880s organized itself around lines suggested by the physical sciences, the new technologists are organizing in new ways, along lines suggested by the cognitive, aesthetic and social sciences and arts: computer science, psychology, social psychology, user-experience and design.

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