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The introduction of new health information technologies provides both great opportunities but presents significant cognitive challenges. Cognitive science is a multidisciplinary domain of inquiry devoted to the study of cognition and its role in intelligent agency. It incorporates basic science research related to attention, memory, reasoning, and comprehension as well as applied research pertaining to human-computer interaction and human factors. This chapter introduces cognitive research in healthcare and informatics, a discipline referred to as cognitive informatics. It presents the basic theoretical underpinnings of cognitive science with a focus on information-processing, natural language representation and distributed cognition frameworks. The chapter begins with a historical overview of research in related areas such as medical cognition, the acquisition of expertise and patient safety.

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    The term protocol refers to that which is produced by a subject during testing (e.g., a verbal record). It differs from the more common use of protocol as defining a code or set of procedures governing behavior or a situation.

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Patel, V.L., Kaufman, D.R. (2021). Cognitive Informatics. In: Shortliffe, E.H., Cimino, J.J. (eds) Biomedical Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58721-5_4

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