The Cognitive Science track is characterised by its strong interdisciplinary focus on cognition and by its emphasis on gaining a broad overview of mind/brain theories and knowledge. It provides courses and research opportunities into vision and perception, learning and memory, thinking and problem-solving, knowledge representation, action control and language.

The track focuses on the processes involved in human cognitive behaviour, in particular memory, language and action control. The aim is to better understand the architecture and evolution of the cognitive system and its role in reasoning and communication.

Students in this track can choose to specialise in more psychologically-oriented areas (such as human memory, attention, perception and action) as well as in areas that are more closely tied to linguistics (e.g. psycholinguistics) and computer science (e.g. artificial intelligence).