Toruń, Poland

Cognitive Science

Kognitywistyka

Bachelor's
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Cognitive Science at UMK

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: humanities
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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Test: check whether Cognitive Science is the right major for you!

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Test: check whether Cognitive Science is the right major for you!

1. Are you curious about how the mind works, including perception, memory, and decision-making?

2. Do you enjoy combining insights from psychology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy, or neuroscience?

3. Are you interested in using computational models or programming to simulate thought or behavior?

4. Do you enjoy analyzing language, communication patterns, or how meaning is constructed?

5. Are you comfortable interpreting experimental data and drawing inferences about mental processes?

6. Do you like thinking about ethical questions related to artificial intelligence, cognition, or human behavior?

7. Are you motivated by solving complex problems that require integrating different kinds of evidence?

8. Do you enjoy communicating abstract ideas clearly to others, both verbally and in writing?

9. Are you curious about how humans and machines can interact more effectively, such as through user interfaces or cognitive ergonomics?

10. Are you willing to adapt your understanding as new research and perspectives evolve in this fast-moving field?

Definitions and quotes

Cognitive Science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes. It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition (in a broad sense). Cognitive scientists study intelligence and behavior, with a focus on how nervous systems represent, process, and transform information. Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include language, perception, memory, attention, reasoning, and emotion; to understand these faculties, cognitive scientists borrow from fields such as linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology. The typical analysis of cognitive science spans many levels of organization, from learning and decision to logic and planning; from neural circuitry to modular brain organization. The fundamental concept of cognitive science is that "thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures."
Science
Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science
We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most critical elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Sir Ernest Rutherford from The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996), 26.
Science
Today, when so much depends on our informed action, we as voters and taxpayers can no longer afford to confuse science and technology, to confound “pure” science and “applied” science.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, in Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein, The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World (2007), 181.
Science
Within the short span of a human life and with man's limited powers of memory, any stock of knowledge worthy of the name is unattainable except by the greatest mental economy. Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.
Ernst Mach, The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of Its Development (1893) p. 490, Tr. Thomas J. McCormack.
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