Toruń, Poland

Cognitive Science

Kognitywistyka

Master'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: Is Cognitive Science the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. Why do people remember some faces for years and forget others within seconds? How do you approach a question like that?

2. You’re designing an experiment on attention. What matters most to you?

3. How do you feel about learning to program, for example to analyse data or build simple neural network models?

4. Your classmates come from psychology, computer science, linguistics and philosophy, from many countries, and all classes are in English. How does that sound?

5. A language model writes fluent text. Does it understand what it’s saying?

6. You’re asked to record EEG or eye-tracking data from participants. How do you feel?

7. A popular article claims we use only a small part of our brain. How do you react?

8. How do you feel about reading research papers from several disciplines?

9. Where can you see yourself after this degree?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Cognitive Science?

⇑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
Take a look at George Gamow, who is now recognized as one of the great cosmologists of the last hundred years. I speculate that he probably didn't win the Nobel Prize because people could not take him seriously. He wrote children's books. His colleagues have publicly stated his writing children's books on science had an adverse effect on his scientific reputation, and people could not take him seriously when he and his colleagues proposed that there should be a cosmic background radiation, which we now know to be one of the greatest discoveries of 20th-century physics.
Michio Kaku, in "Borrowed Time: Interview with Michio Kaku".
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Science falsely so called.
I Timothy, VI. 20. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 691-92
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Too often, this concern for the big picture is simply obscurantist and is put forward by people who prefer vagueness and mystery to (partial) answers. Vagueness is at times necessary and mystery is never in short supply, but I don’t think they’re anything to worship. Genuine science and mathematical precision are more intriguing than are the “facts” published in supermarket tabloids or a romantic innumeracy which fosters credulity, stunts skepticism, and dulls one to real imponderables.
John Allen Paulos, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), pp. 126-127
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