Cognitive Science (BHA Concentration)
Erik Thiessen, BHA Cognitive Science Concentration Advisor (BH 342D)
BHA Cognitive Science Concentration
(87 units minimum)
The field of cognitive science has grown out of increasingly active interaction among psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, and neuroscience. All of these fields share the goal of understanding intelligence. By combining these diverse perspectives, students of cognitive science are able to understand cognition at a deep level. Because this concentration is administered by the Psychology Department, it focuses on human cognition and the experimental study of the human mind as illuminated by the techniques of the above disciplines.
Prerequisite Courses
| Units | ||
| 15-112 | Fundamentals of Programming and Computer Science | 12 |
| 21-120 | Differential and Integral Calculus (prerequisite: 21-090) | 10-20 |
| or 21-111 & 21-112 | Differential Calculus and Integral Calculus | |
| 21-127 | Concepts of Mathematics | 12 |
Statistics Course (1 course, 9 units)
| 36-218 | Probability Theory for Computer Scientists | 9 |
| or 36-225 | Introduction to Probability Theory | |
| or 36-309 | Experimental Design for Behavioral & Social Sciences | |
| or 85-309 | Statistical Concepts and Methods for Behavioral and Social Science | |
Computational/Cognitive Modeling Core (3 courses, 33 units)
Complete two of the following courses:
| 15-122 | Principles of Imperative Computation | 12 |
| 15-150 | Principles of Functional Programming | 12 |
| 15-251 | Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science | 12 |
Plus one of the following courses:
| 85-412 | Cognitive Modeling | 9 |
| 85-414 | Cognition in the Age of AI | 9 |
| 85-419 | Introduction to Parallel Distributed Processing | 9 |
| 85-420 | Biologically Intelligent Exploration | 9 |
Cognitive Psychology Core (4 courses, 36 units minimum)
| 85-110 | Cognitive Psychology | 9 |
| or 85-213 | Human Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence | |
| 85-300 | Introduction to Research Methods | 9 |
Plus two of the following (one of which must be 85-3xx or 85-4xx):
| Plus two of the following (one of which must be 85-3xx or 85-4xx): | ||
| 85-170 | Foundations of Brain and Behavior | 9 |
| or 85-106 | Animal Minds | |
| 85-310 | Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology | 9 |
| 85-370 | Cognitive Neuropsychology Research Methods | 9 |
| 85-408 | Visual Cognition | 9 |
| 85-411 | Introduction to Music Cognition Research | 9 |
| 85-413 | Perception | 9 |
| 85-416 | Applications of Cognitive Science | 9 |
| 85-471 | How the Brain Makes Meaning | 9 |
| 85-472 | Cognitive Neuropsychology | 9 |
| 80-310 | Formal Logic | 9 |
| 80-315 | Logics for Knowledge and Belief | 9 |
| 80-381 | Meaning in Language | 9 |
| 80-383 | Language in Use | 9 |
| 05-413 | Human Factors | 9 |
| 11-344 | Machine Learning in Practice | 12 |
Cognitive Science Elective (1 course, 9 units)
Choose one elective in consultation with your concentration advisor.