Table 1.

Parallel Issues in Cognitive Science, Medical Cognition, and Medical Informatics

Cognitive Science	Medical Cognition	Medical Informatics
Knowledge organization and human memory	Organization of clinical and basic science knowledge	Development and use of medical knowledge bases
Problem solving, heuristics/reasoning strategies	Medical problem solving and decision making	Medical artificial intelligence/cognitive models of decision support
Perception/attention	Radiologic and dermatologic diagnosis	Medical imaging systems
Text comprehension	Learning from medical texts	Electronic text processing
Conversational analysis	Medical discourse	Medical language processing
Distributed cognition	Collaborative practice and research in health care	Computer-supported collaborating agents
Coordination of theory and evidence	Diagnostic and therapeutic reasoning	Evidence-based clinical guidelines
Mental models	Skills training	Cognitive usability assessment