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Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field with contributors from various fields, including psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy of mind, computer science, anthropology, sociology, and biology.

Cognitive science tends to view the world outside the mind much as other sciences do.

Thus it too has an objective, observer-independent existence.

The field is usually seen as compatible with the physical sciences, and uses the scientific method as well as simulation or modeling, often comparing the output of models with aspects of human behavior.

Some doubt whether there is a unified cognitive science and prefer to speak of the cognitive sciences in plural.