Cognitive science studies mind and intelligence. Not just human intelligence, but also the cognitive abilities of animals and machines.
One of the basic tenets of cognitive science is the idea that the human mind can be modeled as a collection of data structures which are processed using certain algorithms or rules. Therefore, it should be possible to build a computer which simulates the function of the human mind.

This blog will focus on human cognition and on human perception. Humans perceive the outside world through their senses and base their cognitive abilities on the data from the senses. We may have no way to learn the true nature the world around us, we only know the parts which our senses can perceive. Current research has only scratched the surface of human data coding and processing. There are a huge number of studies with often contradictory results. This blog will try to shed some light on the state of research.

Thomas Grüter is a medical doctor and is currently studying face recognition and its disorders. He has written several scientific and popular scientific papers about the subject and was in the team who first found out that congenital prosopagnosia (a face recognition deficit) is about as common as dyslexia. He lives and works in Münster/Germany.

Thomas Grüter