Measurement and Analysis of the Mind

Undergraduate / Graduate

This course will introduce students to a selection of empirical methods drawn from a range of disciplines that contribute to cognitive science, including experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, linguistic analysis, and artificial intelligence. Students in this course will learn to design scientific experiments and analyze data with inferential statistics, culminating in a final independent project of their own design. Along the way, we will also discuss the philosophies of science invoked when connecting measurements of experimental data to inferences about the underlying nature of cognitive mechanisms, as well as best practices when conducting empirical research.