Cognitive anthropology studies how knowledge is organized in the human mind across different cultural contexts. It examines systems of concepts through language and compares them cross-culturally to understand underlying principles of organization. While influenced by fields like linguistics and psychology, cognitive anthropology today involves researchers from various subdisciplines converging on the study of cognition in cultural settings. Areas of focus include cultural models of common sense knowledge, linguistic relativity and how language influences thought, and spatial language and cognition across cultures. The role of culture is being explored not just in meanings but also in cognitive processes, with increasingly interdisciplinary work in cognitive sciences.