The Brain and Cognitive Sciences II
A graduate-level survey from MIT covering the second half of an intensive introduction to cognitive science, aimed at first-year PhD students. Topics include visual perception, language, memory, cognitive architecture, learning, reasoning, decision-making, and cognitive development, approached from behavioral, computational, and neural perspectives. MIT OpenCourseWare provides the course materials, which typically include lecture notes, readings, and assignments drawn from the graduate seminar. The course builds on a first-semester companion class and assumes familiarity with foundational concepts in cognitive science, making it suited to students already grounded in psychology, neuroscience, or computational modeling who want a research-level treatment of how minds process information, learn, and develop.