Cognitive Science

About this course

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the mind and its processes. It brings together philosophy, psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, computer science, and artificial intelligence to ask fundamental questions about how thinking works: how we perceive, remember, reason, learn, and use language, and whether minds can be modelled or replicated in machines. It is a field that refuses to respect the traditional boundaries between disciplines, insisting that understanding cognition requires tools and concepts from all of them. The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's leading centres for cognitive science and artificial intelligence research, and its four-year full-time Cognitive Science programme draws on that exceptional intellectual environment. You will study the foundations of the field, including the philosophy of mind, theories of perception and attention, compu

Where its graduates go

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