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<section><div class="section-top contain-1120"><h3>Our Program</h3><div class="long-border-grey"> </div><p>The Cognitive Science Program at Northwestern offers an undergraduate major and minor. Explore requirements, course descriptions and opportunities to advance research surrounding human thought and behavior.</p><ul class="center-list"><li><a class="button large" href="undergraduate/index.html">Undergraduate Courses</a></li><li><a class="button large" href="undergraduate/first-year-focus.html">First-Year Focus</a></li><li><a class="button large" href="graduate/funding_for_graduate_specialists/index.html">Graduate Fellowships</a></li></ul></div></section><section class="contain-1120"><div class="feature-three-col"><article class="feature-box"><div class="feature-copy"><h4>What is Cognitive Science?</h4>Cognitive Science is the scientific study of the mind, brain, and intelligent systems. This interdisciplinary field combines knowledge and expertise from computer science, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, and biology.</div><a class="button" href="about/index.html">Learn More</a></article><article class="feature-box"><div class="feature-copy"><h4>Advanced Fellowships</h4><p>The Northwestern Cognitive Science Program offers fellowship support for graduate students engaged in interdisciplinary research in cognitive science. These three-quarter fellowships are awarded competitively, based on the quality of research proposed, on the candidate's qualifications, and on the interdisciplinarity of the research. Click below to learn more details about their advanced research.</p></div><a class="button" href="_not-used/fellowship-winners.html">Read More</a></article><article class="feature-box"><div class="feature-copy"><h4>Speaker Series</h4><p>We have an exciting and diverse series of talks with leading cognitive scientists from discussing their research for a wide audience. All of our talks are open to the public, and everyone is welcome to stay for a reception and informal discussion after each talk.</p></div><a class="button" href="https://cogsci.northwestern.edu/events/index.html ">Learn More</a></article></div></section><section class=""><div class="home-news-events contain-1120"><section class="highlight"><h4>Recent Tweets</h4><div class="short-border-black"> </div><div class="description"><a class="twitter-timeline" data-height="400" data-width="255" href="https://twitter.com/nucogsci">Tweets by nucogsci</a> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><p class="button"><a href="https://twitter.com/nucogsci">All Tweets</a></p></section><section class="events"><h4>Events</h4><div class="short-border-black"> </div><article class="event"><div class="event-date"><div class="month">Jan</div><div class="day">21</div><div class="year">2025</div></div><div class="event-description"><h5><a href="https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/618637" onclick="window.open('https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/618637','event','width=575,height=640,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes').focus(); return false;" target="_blank">Dr. Laura Dabbish: CogSci Speaker Series</a></h5><p class="event-time-location">4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston</p><p>Title and abstract to be announced.</p></div></article><article class="event"><div class="event-date"><div class="month">Feb</div><div class="day">11</div><div class="year">2025</div></div><div class="event-description"><h5><a href="https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/623405" onclick="window.open('https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/623405','event','width=575,height=640,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes').focus(); return false;" target="_blank">Faculty Flash Talks : CogSci Speaker Series</a></h5><p class="event-time-location">4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston</p><p>Speakers: Peer Herholz Katie Insel Morgan Thompson</p></div></article><article class="event"><div class="event-date"><div class="month">Feb</div><div class="day">18</div><div class="year">2025</div></div><div class="event-description"><h5><a href="https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/619434" onclick="window.open('https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/619434','event','width=575,height=640,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes').focus(); return false;" target="_blank">Dr. Rebecca Saxe: CogSci Speaker Series</a></h5><p class="event-time-location">4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston</p><p>Title and abstract to be announced.聽</p></div></article><p class="button"><a href="events/index.html">All Events</a></p></section><section class="news"><h4>News</h4><div class="short-border-black"> </div><h5><a href="https://www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awards-and-honors/fellow-award">Professor Dedre Gentner is a recipient of the 2022 William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APS) </a></h5><h5><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/fellowships/documents/fellowship-winners-20192020.pdf">Congratulations to Gavin Brehm (2020, Cognitive Science & Music) on receiving the Luce Scholar award for an internship in Japan!</a></h5><h5><a href="http://www.sepsych.org/awards.php">Professor Dedre Gentner receives the 2020 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Experimental Psychologists</a></h5><h5><a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/03/05/campus/northwestern-psychology-prof-susan-hespos-featured-on-netflix-docuseries-babies/">Professor Sue Hespos featured in Netflix docuseries 鈥淏abies" </a></h5><h5><a href="https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/computer-science/news-events/news/articles/2020/chen-forbus-win-best-paper-award.html">Kezhen Chen and Ken Forbus Win Best Paper Award at KR2ML Workshop at NeurIPS 2019</a></h5><p class="button"><a href="_not-used/news/index.html">All News</a></p></section></div></section> </main> </div> <footer> <div class="contain-970"> <div class="footer-content"><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu"><img alt="Northwestern University" src="https://common.northwestern.edu/v8/css/images/northwestern-university.svg"/></a> <ul> <li>© <script>// <![CDATA[ document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) // ]]></script> Northwestern University</li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/facilities/building-campus-access/building-access/">Building Access</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/emergency/index.html">Campus Emergency Information</a></li> <li><a href="https://hr.northwestern.edu/careers/">Careers</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/contact.html">Contact Northwestern University</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/disclaimer.html">Disclaimer</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/privacy/index.html">Privacy Statement</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/accessibility/about/report-accessibility-issue.html">Report an Accessibility Issue</a></li> <li><a href="https://policies.northwestern.edu/">University Policies</a></li> </ul></div> <div class="footer-content contact"><ul><li class="footer-pin-icon"><span class="hide-label">Address</span></li><li><strong>Cognitive Science Program</strong></li><li>Room 214, Swift Hall, 2029 Sheridan Road</li><li>Evanston, IL 60208</li></ul><ul><li class="footer-phone-icon"><span class="hide-label">Phone number</span></li><li><strong>Phone</strong></li><li> 847.467.2035</li></ul><ul><li><strong>Fax</strong></li><li>847.491.7859</li></ul><ul><li class="footer-email-icon"><span class="hide-label">Email Address</span></li><li><a href="mailto:cogsci@northwestern.edu">cogsci@northwestern.edu</a></li></ul></div> <div class="footer-content"><p><strong>Social Media</strong></p><a class="social twitter" href="https://twitter.com/nucogsci">Twitter</a><a class="social we-will" href="http://wewill.northwestern.edu/weinbergcollege">We Will</a></div> <div class="footer-content"><ul> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/norris/services/bookstore.html">Bookstore</a></li> <li><a href="https://offices.northwestern.edu/">Directory</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.library.northwestern.edu/">Library</a></li> <li><a href="https://maps.northwestern.edu/">Maps</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/transportation-parking/">Parking</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/transportation-parking/shuttles/routes/">Shuttles</a></li> </ul></div> </div> </footer> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="https://weinberg.northwestern.edu/common/v2/js/scripts.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="https://weinberg.northwestern.edu/common/v2/js/swiper.jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="https://weinberg.northwestern.edu/common/v2/js/content-slider.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </body> </html>