Central European University is an English-language, graduate university located in Budapest, Hungary. An international university with students from some 100 countries and faculty from more than 40, CEU offers small, seminar-style courses and a student/faculty ratio of 7:1. CEU is accredited in the United States and Hungary. Cognitive science is the study of the ways in which information is acquired and used by humans and other living organisms.
The field also includes the study of cognitive systems, including artificial intelligence. CEU’s Department of Cognitive Science concentrates on social and biological aspects of human cognition: how learning, processing, and sharing information about and with others takes place, and how computational models of human cognition can be realized in the brain. Students and faculty undertake interdisciplinary research drawing on psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, mathematical modeling, linguistics, and the social sciences. The department currently offers one doctoral program.
Program Offered
- Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive Science
- Behavioral economics
- Cognition and culture
- Cognitive development
- Cooperation
- Computational models
- Developmental psychopathology
- Embodied cognition
- Infant social cognition
- Joint action
- Language and cognition
- Learning and memory
- Social cognitive neuroscience
- Statistical learning
- Visual perception
