| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
| Description: | Are you interested in how people or computers think? Carleton University offers a stand-alone doctoral program in Cognitive Science. This advanced program spans the fields of the humanities, social sciences and sciences as an interdisciplinary program that focuses on the study of thought. Students spend one term in each of two laboratories or other research venues using two different methods for studying cognition (behavioural, linguistic-theoretic, computational, conceptual, neuroscientific). There are opportunities to do research off campus. |
| Areas of Research: | Consciousness; Cognitive development; Mathematical Cognition; Cognitive and Computational Modeling; Human Performance; Applied Cognition; Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Philosophy of Mind and Language; Intelligent Information Systems Knowledge Representation; Natural Language Understanding; Swarm and Collective Intelligence; Evolutionary Computing; Experimental and Computational Neuroscience. |