INFORMATION PROCESSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does information processing mean? 

• INFORMATION PROCESSING (noun)
  The noun INFORMATION PROCESSING has 1 sense:

1. the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information

  Familiarity information: INFORMATION PROCESSING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFORMATION PROCESSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

informatics; information processing; information science; IP

Hypernyms ("information processing" is a kind of...):

science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

Meronyms (parts of "information processing"):

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Domain member category:

queue ((information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "information processing"):

human language technology; natural language processing; NLP (the branch of information science that deals with natural language information)

cybernetics ((biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems))

 Context examples 

The FACT-Cognitive Function questionnaire is a 37 item measure developed by Dr. David Cella to evaluate knowledge and information processing.

(FACT-Cognitive Function, NCI Thesaurus)

The team also hopes that this research will facilitate understanding of the brain’s information processing mechanisms.

(Neuromorphic Metallic Nanowire Network Shows Human Brain-Like Functions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This term encompasses a large number of problems and issues associated with intellectual functioning and information processing. 2005

(Cognitive Dysfunction, NCI Thesaurus)

But because visual information processing in the brain is highly complex, scientists have struggled to demonstrate that these mathematical models accurately mimic a biological process happening in the brain during decision-making.

(Researchers discover neural code that predicts behavior, National Institutes of Health)

A different approach to brain research—in which materials and systems capable of performing brain-like functions are created and their mechanisms are investigated—may be effective in identifying new applications of brain-like information processing and advancing brain science.

(Neuromorphic Metallic Nanowire Network Shows Human Brain-Like Functions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)