第六章 认知学.pptVIP

Chapter SixLanguage and Cognition 1. What is Cognition? In psychology COGNITION is used to refer to the mental processes (心理过程)of an individual , with particular relation to a view that argues that the mind(心智) has internal states and can be understood in terms of information processing Another loose definition of “Cognition” is the mental process or faculty of knowing, including awareness（意识）, perception （感知）, reasoning （推理）, and judgment （判断）. The formal approach: structural patterns, including the study of morphological, syntactic, and lexical structure. The psychological approach: looks