This article presents the possibilities of relationship between information science and human cognition. In this regard, discusses research results on information processing within the cognitive psychology field. Such studies are concerned with the performance of individuals in reading skills, knowledge acquisition and transforming information onto knowledge. It focus on studies about human cognition and metacognition and the importance of this approach to information retrieval and indexing procedures in the context of information systems.
Information science; Cognition; Information retrieval; Indexing