Università Roma Tre

The course of Introduction to Cognitive Sciences is part of the program in Communication Studies (Bachelor’s degree course) and it is included among the complementary training activities. The course aims to provide students with a historical, conceptual and methodological introduction to cognitive science. This is the study of the mind through the synthesis of contributions coming from research fields such as philosophy, artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology and social sciences.

After completing the course of Introduction to Cognitive Science the student should:

- know the diversity of viewpoints, the controversies and the areas of nascent consensus in the field of cognitive science;

- appreciate the contribution of each of the constituent disciplines;

- know multiple definitions of the foundational concepts of computation and representation and be able to discuss them from multiple points of view;

- have an overview of how perception, memory, language, motor control, and so forth come together to produce behavior.