For whom is the cognitive science programme relevant?
Due to its high interdisciplinarity, the programme is popular with students with a very diverse mosaic of previous study experience. The program is very suitable for students with a bachelor's degree in a related field (so-called mother disciplines of cognitive science), such as psychology, computer science, neuroscience, biology, linguistics or philosophy.
However, more than a decade of experience has shown that applicants with other bachelor's degrees have also been able to successfully integrate into the program (also thanks to the completion of all compensatory courses), successfully complete it and enter the labour market. Roughly, the relevant study programmes can be divided to:
- biological/natural science (e.g. via neuroscience, part of physics, psychiatry),
- formal (applied computer science, mathematics, data science, etc.)
- humanities (psychology, philosophy).
People with these backgrounds can bring to the cognitive science programme their expertise (mathematician - modelling cognition through dynamical systems, deriving equations for the transmission of neural excitations in the brain, computational models in artificial intelligence; psychologist - formulating testable hypotheses inspired by e.g. psychotherapy techniques or conditioning patterns; biologist - knowledge from neuroscience interesting as inspiration for modelling intelligence, knowledge about the brain interesting e.g. in the study of consciousness, etc.).
If you are in doubt whether your study background is relevant for studying our cognitive science programme, don't hesitate to ask us! (contact: prof. Ing. Igor Farkaš, Dr.)