Editorial: Methods and applications in cognitive science

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through life sciences (neuroscience) and physical sciences (quantum mechanics, neurochemistry, etc.). We planned for this special volume on the topic, 'Methods and Applications in Cognitive Science' to highlight some of such novel methodologies or paradigms that may potentially inspire future research and interdisciplinary collaborations.We invited all types of articles, reviews, and novel protocols that have relevance to the basic philosophy of cognitive science. This special topic series comprises eight full papers that went through the normal peer-review process successfully. We give an overview of these eight papers here following which we reflect on the overall limitations and merits of this collection, and how they could potentially broaden the breadth and depth of inquiry in cognitive science research. Figure 1 presents a schematic representation of the topics covered in this special series.------Insert Figure 1 empathy based on the 5E approach (the "E" standing for embodied, embedded, enacted, emotional, and extended perspectives of empathy). The paper illustrated how a novel multimodal approach including mobile brain and body imaging (MoBi) combined with phenomenological methods and the implementation of interactive paradigms in a natural context are adequate procedures to study empathy.We looked at the overall representativeness of global researchers who contributed to the collection in this series as well as the theoretical/practical aspects of the papers. The researchers who contributed to this volume come from six major continents -Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. However, the geographical representation is not uniformly distributed as Asia accounts for 5/8 of the contributions. All the papers, except one, have multiple authors (more than two). Two papers had collaborators from three continents. This exemplifies the multi-disciplinary collaborative nature of cognitive science that has evolved from being a mere perspective to an independent discipline. Content-wise, 50% of the papers belong to the 'original research' category while the rest belong to 'Methods/paradigms including case study'. One may observe that even the original papers had some novelty concerning the rationale or paradigm of the study. There is a vast diversity in theories, epistemological frameworks, and approaches among the papers, which is true to the spirit of plurality in cognitive science. Some papers used very novel paradigms and techniques while some had more practical applications. In general, the methods followed or described in these papers exhibit flexibility for possible incorporation and integration with other compatible fields of cognitive science. Most of the papers were globally appropriate and potentially testable in different cultural settings despite the limited range of participants these studies had. By and large, we believe that this special topic series has been a successful endeavor in presenting a representative glimpse of novelty and diversity in methods and applications followed in cognitive science.

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