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Head of department: Prof. Omri Abend
omri.abend@mail.huji.ac.il

B.A. and Minor Studies Advisor: Dr. Nitzan Guy 
cogBAadviser@mail.huji.ac.il

M.A. Advisor: Prof. Anat Maril
anat.maril@mail.huji.ac.il

PhD Advisor: Dr. Oren Forkosh
oren.forkosh@mail.huji.ac.il

Teaching and Student Administrator: Mrs. Tatyana Aleksandrov
tatyanea@savion.huji.ac.il

Students Coordinator: Mr. Shaked Sukiennik
shaked.sukiennik@mail.huji.ac.il

Department Secretary: Mrs. Daniela Michaeli
Sun.-Thurs. 10:00-13:00, Tel: +972-2-5882760
daniellami@savion.huji.ac.il

Secretary for Administration Affairs:
Mrs. Yulia Perelman
Tel: +972-2-5883758
yuliapc@savion.huji.ac.il

  • About

    Cognitive science and Brain concerns the explanation of mental faculties such as language acquisition, perception, decision making, creativity and awareness. Cognitive research is anchored in different fields including Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Logic and computation, and Neuroscience.

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    The uniqueness of the cognitive science curriculum is the integration of these different fields, which is aimed at uncovering the processes that underlie mental phenomena. Distinct examples for such successful integration can be found in theories of language acquisition and creation: Linguistics and logic devise formal constraints emanating from language analysis, psychology characterizes the processes which satisfy these constraints, neurology locates the brain structures performing these same processes, and computational models provide a theoretical and conceptual framework for describing them.

    The bachelor’s degree program was introduced in 2001, in addition to a master’s degree program, and a more compressed academic minor, which were also previously available. The program’s goal is to introduce students to content, research methods and the different types of thought characteristic to cognitive science, thereby developing flexible thinking and interdisciplinary proficiency which will open various employment opportunities to graduates. Alumni of the program would, among other options, be able to carry out further research in cognitive science, and to specialize in unique fields in the hi-tech industry, such as computational linguistics, language and logic, neural computation, and computation and music.

    The program is a joint effort involving the faculties of Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Science, and the School of Education. It offers a a Bachelor of Science  (BS.c.) degree, a bachelor’s minor and a and a full individual graduate program (M.A.).

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  • Bachelor’s Degree

    The academic framework is a double major format. The students’ second major would be related to cognitive and brain science: Psychology, Philosophy, Linguistics and languages, Computer Science, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Musicology, Statistics and Economics. The duration of studies is three years.

    The academic program is based on three main principles:

  • Master’s Degree

    M.A. students devise an individual curriculum according to a subject of their choice. The program’s students specialize in subjects such as language and thinking, thought and computers, computational linguistics, music and cognition and more. The program includes a research-oriented degree, which encompasses writing a research paper.