48 monthsProgramme duration
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Programme overview
Main Subject
Linguistics
Degree
MA
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary attempt to understand the human mind. It focuses on abilities such as:
- reasoning
- perception
- memory
- awareness
- emotion
- attention
- judgement
- motor control
- language use
Cognitive science brings together and forms connections between these abilities, through methods such as:
- computer modelling
- linguistic analysis
- philosophical reasoning
- robotics
- neuroimaging
- psychological experiments
It brings together scholars from:
- linguistics
- psychology
- philosophy
- neuroscience
- computer science
Cognitive science at the University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh played a key role in founding this discipline by forming connections between the disciplines that contribute to the study of human cognition and artificial intelligence.
You will learn from researchers who both laid the foundations, and are still making key advances in the field. The programme content is regularly reviewed to make sure you learn about current developments.
Our Cognitive Science (Humanities) programme offers an opportunity to complete a selection of basic courses covering material in:
- linguistics
- philosophy
- psychology
- computer science
Our goal is to help you achieve a broad understanding of issues, such as the:
- relationship between language and thought
- relationship between mind and brain
- philosophical implications of our ability to look inside the brain and to model its activities in computers and robots
Programme benefits
- The University of Edinburgh helped to create the field of cognitive science and is still at the forefront of it.
- You will learn not only from researchers who laid the foundations of the subject, but also from those who are still making key advances.
- Edinburgh is one of the largest centres in Europe for the study of human cognition and the only university in Scotland to offer cognitive science at undergraduate degree level.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Linguistics
Degree
MA
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary attempt to understand the human mind. It focuses on abilities such as:
- reasoning
- perception
- memory
- awareness
- emotion
- attention
- judgement
- motor control
- language use
Cognitive science brings together and forms connections between these abilities, through methods such as:
- computer modelling
- linguistic analysis
- philosophical reasoning
- robotics
- neuroimaging
- psychological experiments
It brings together scholars from:
- linguistics
- psychology
- philosophy
- neuroscience
- computer science
Cognitive science at the University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh played a key role in founding this discipline by forming connections between the disciplines that contribute to the study of human cognition and artificial intelligence.
You will learn from researchers who both laid the foundations, and are still making key advances in the field. The programme content is regularly reviewed to make sure you learn about current developments.
Our Cognitive Science (Humanities) programme offers an opportunity to complete a selection of basic courses covering material in:
- linguistics
- philosophy
- psychology
- computer science
Our goal is to help you achieve a broad understanding of issues, such as the:
- relationship between language and thought
- relationship between mind and brain
- philosophical implications of our ability to look inside the brain and to model its activities in computers and robots
Programme benefits
- The University of Edinburgh helped to create the field of cognitive science and is still at the forefront of it.
- You will learn not only from researchers who laid the foundations of the subject, but also from those who are still making key advances.
- Edinburgh is one of the largest centres in Europe for the study of human cognition and the only university in Scotland to offer cognitive science at undergraduate degree level.
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