Cognitive Science

This research-oriented Master's degree programme opens up new perspectives on addressing questions related to cognitive science and embodied cognition. Under the two keywords of interdisciplinarity and internationality, young scientists are given the opportunity to develop promising concepts and technologies and to test them in a state-of-the-art research environment. The Master's course of study serves to extend and deepen the discipline-specific and methodological knowledge and skills you have already acquired in your Bachelor's degree programme on the topic of human cognition. On the basis of a specific and interdisciplinary array of methods, you will be placed in a position to formulate questions pertaining to cognitive process analysis and to develop solutions. Discussions of the most recent research results will enable you to work towards modelling neurocognitive processes and systems. Aside from learning to present complex stimuli and measure human responses, you will also acquire broad and fundamental skills in experimental and psychophysical methods, especially pertaining to computer-based implementations of experimental designs with programming languages ​​and their application for data collection. You will learn to identify new areas of research and to study these areas experimentally, and you will be enabled to further develop existing analytical approaches in an appropriate manner. In collaboration with other team members, you will be able to present your research results so that they will be ready for international dissemination. Graduates of this degree programme will be able to work scientifically in the cognitive and neurosciences. They will also be qualified for research and leadership positions in corresponding industrial sectors. Based on their deep knowledge of cognitive processes and their neuronal foundations as well as mathematical and methodological skills, the graduates of this programme will be able to conceptualise complex projects and experiments in various subfields of the cognitive sciences, formulate hypotheses and examine them quantitatively. All information on course content and structure can be found here.