Recent advances in the cognitive sciences, and especially in the cognitive neurosciences, have made one thing abundantly clear -- there is no simple way to characterize, or localize, cognition. The journal Cognitive Psychology takes a typical approach to this problem; instead of directly defining cognitive psychology, the journal lists the kinds of processes that are commonly included -- memory, language processing, perception, problem solving, and thinking.
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