The aim of the course is to present a unified view of cognitive science, based on a computational approach to analysing cognition. The course covers language, vision and attention, memory, motor control and action, and reasoning and generalization. All topics will be presented from a computational point of view. The course provides a basic grounding in the methods of cognitive science, focusing on computational modelling and experimental design. Suitable for all interested students.

On completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of key areas of cognitive science, and be able to take an integrated, rather than disciplinary perspective on the field.
• Evaluate the most important conceptual problems in cognitive science and discuss the solutions that have been proposed.
• Analyze and modify simple computational models in a variety of modeling paradigms.
• Understand how cognition and cognitive science is societally situated and the ethical issues raised in researching cognition.