Cognitive Science is the study of cognition from the point of view of information processing. It combines the traditional fields of cognitive and physiological psychology with computer science philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience and other disciplines to study perception, memory, reasoning, motor control, language, and even the nature of consciousness itself.
Dartmouth students who major in Cognitive Science will work across disciplines to address questions about the mind, the brain, and the mental life of human beings. They'll study the work of psychologists, philosophers, linguists, and computer scientists and develop competence in the use of computational tools, statistical methods, experimental design, and linguistic analyses. Research in Cognitive Science is problem-oriented, and thus Cognitive Science elective coursework allows students to gain specialized knowledge in a particular problem area of Cognitive Science.

