Welcome
Cognitive Science is the interdisciplinary study of the mind.
This multidisciplinary field uses both knowledge and methods from a variety of fields, including:
- Psychology
- Computer Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Philosophy
- Linguistics
- Anthropology
- Neuroscience
- Biology
Tufts has built up a world-renowned faculty in Cognitive
Science, some of whom have been prominent since the birth of the field. Our
joint Ph.D. program offers a joint degree in Cognitive Science and one of its
four host disciplines:
- Psychology
- Computer Science
- Child Development
- Education
In the spirit of the pioneers of the field, our program
guarantees an exceptional interdisciplinary breadth of topics from all the
defining fields of Cognitive Science. Some of the themes that our faculty
specializes in are:
- Human-human communication
- Psycho- and Neurolinguistics
- Human Development
- Sign language
- Human-robot communication
- STEM education
- Animal cognition
- Human memory
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