Cognitive Science

About this course

Cognitive science sits at the crossroads of psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence. Rather than studying the mind from a single disciplinary angle, it asks how thinking, perception, language and memory actually work by drawing on all of these fields together. The result is a genuinely unusual degree that trains you to move between formal models and experimental evidence, to hold a computational question alongside a philosophical one, and to evaluate competing theories of what it means to understand or to know something. At Newcastle you will explore the architecture of the mind from multiple directions. You will examine how the brain processes sensory information, how language is acquired and used, how attention and memory interact, and what computational models can and cannot tell us about human cognition. The programme also cons

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 66% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 68 / 100Customer service occupations · 6% of graduatescards →
• 62 / 100Secretarial and related occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 30% of graduatescards →
• 30 / 100Managers, directors and senior officials · 10% of graduatescards →

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