Program Description
cogsci.ucmerced.edu
The Cognitive and Information Sciences program offers its students interdisciplinary training in cognitive science with an emphasis on data analysis and computational modeling. This emphasis distinguishes us from other Cognitive Science graduate programs. We view intelligent behaviors not just as emerging solely from neural processes, but from interactions between brain, body, and environment. Thus, intelligent behaviors may also emerge from group and social interactions situated in their economic and technological milieu. The word “information” in CIS denotes our multi-scale perspective on cognition, and our emphases on computational approaches and applications towards developing technologies that foster, and even aspire to emulate, intelligent behavior.
Our award-winning faculty specialize in a variety of areas that intersect at this nexus, including cognitive science, artificial intelligence, cognitive engineering, cognitive neuroscience, complex systems, computational modeling, computer science, cultural evolution, human-robot interaction, information systems, language and communication, and philosophy of cognitive science. With computational, technological, and application oriented skills in these areas, students who graduate from this program will have career opportunities in both academia and industry.
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