Programme

This course will provide an introduction to cognitive science by exploring some topics of research in this multidisciplinary field. Cognitive science is the study of cognition as information processing by complex organisms or artificial systems; thus it is not a discipline, but rather a “doctrine” that has oriented and is orienting inquiries in a number of disciplines — some descriptive and empirical (e.g., cognitive psychology, linguistics and, more recently, neuroscience), some speculative and foundational (e.g., philosophy of mind), and some both speculative and applied (e.g., artificial intelligence and robotics).

Core Documentation

J.L. Bermúdez, Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020.
S. Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts, Viking Press, New York 2014.

Type of evaluation

Verification of learning takes place through a multiple choice test.