

In artificial intelligence, the goal of constructing “intelligent” machines has been combined with a growing theoretical interest in the structure of intelligent performances, whether carried out by humans or machines. Linguistic theorists have given ever more attention to semantic and pragmatic matters. The increasing ascendency of the information processing approach to experimental psychology and psycholinguistics is reflected in the evolution of thought about human memory, attention and discourse processing. Converging and interacting developments in the disciplines of psychology, linguistics and artificial intelligence have brought about the emergence of the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science.
