About

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 PhD 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

Program Director

J.P. de Ruiter

Professor of Psychology and Computer Science

Cognition and Psycholinguistics

Deputy Director

Ariel Goldberg

Associate Professor

Psychology of Language, Linguistics