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CGS601A: Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology

Course Description

The objective of this course will be to introduce the students coming from various background to the origins of cognitive psychology and cognitive science, the approaches in cognitive science, and then with the different mental processes as they have been studied so far in cognitive science using textbook resources and journal articles. The course will be in-depth and will try to discuss the journal articles in some detail as well.

Course Content

Topics (tentative number of lecture hours in brackets)

  1. Foundations & Brief History of Cognitive Science (3)
  2. Information Processing Approach, Representations, Embodied and Situated cognition (5)
  3. Perception, attention and awareness (8)
  4. Learning and memory (8)
  5. Knowledge, concepts and categorization (4)
  6. Language processing (4)
  7. Problem solving, reasoning and decision making (6)
  8. Emotion and Cognition (4)

Course Audience

PG and PhD students in Cognitive Science

UG students interested in Cognitive Science