Towards a Cognitive Gliascience: A Brief Conceptual Framework

Recent brain studies show the emerging importance of glia (and, in particular, of astroglia) in cognitive abilities like learning and memory. A new, hypothetical area of research is described to enriching the poverty of cognitive studies on glia. This methodology has been used because of its intedisciplinarity, and in particular for a possible foundation of a computational glia-neuroscience. The point of the paper is to raise awareness about a new perspective on these brain cells.