COG SCI AT NU
This faculty member is the current Director of Undergraduate Studies for NU’s Cognitive Science program.
Who is Prof. Erin Leddon?
This subfield studies mental processes such as memory and decision-making. It looks at how the mind represents knowledge and bridges behavior with cognitive mechanisms.
What is psychology?
This process enables the storage and retrieval of information over time.
What is memory?
This brain imaging method measures changes in blood oxygenation to examine neural activity.
What is fMRI?
This Northwestern professor teaches COG_SCI110 and is the director of the Cog Sci program.
Who is Matt Goldrick?
This theme (out of the 5) consists of courses like COG_SCI 244 (Developmental Psych), COG_SCI 228 (Cognitive Psych), and COG_SCI 211 (Learning, Representation, and Reasoning).
What is Learning over Lifetimes?
This subfield focuses on how humans produce, comprehend, and acquire language.
What is linguistics?
This process involves interpreting sensory information from the environment.
What is perception?
This brain imaging method records electrical brain activity from electrodes placed on the scalp.
What is EEG?
This person is known as the “father of cognitive psychology."
Who is Ulric Neisser?
This is the only program in the Bienen School Music that is affiliated with the Cog Sci program.
What is Music Cognition?
This subfield investigates how the brain’s biological structure, neural connections, and chemical processes support mental functions.
What is neuroscience?
This process allows us to selectively focus on certain information while ignoring distractions.
This part of the brain is associated with planning, decision-making, and executive control.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This linguist proposed the “universal grammar” theory (that humans are born with the innate biological capacity for language).
Who is Noam Chomsky?
This is the application deadline for the Cog Sci program’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
What is March 31st, 2026?
This subfield uses computational models and artificial intelligence to study cognition, reasoning, and intelligent behavior in both humans and machines.
What is computer science?
This process allows humans to solve problems, make decisions, and draw conclusions.
What is reasoning?
This brain structure in the temporal lobe plays a key role in forming new episodic memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This Northwestern cognitive scientist is the PI of the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center and is known for her work on learning and thinking, analogy, similarity, and language and cognition.
Who is Dedre Gentner?
What award is granted to undergraduate Cognitive Science students who have made significant contributions to our program.
What is the Gushko Prize?
This subfield investigates how knowledge and skills are acquired, organized, and applied.
What is learning science?
This process enables humans to apply knowledge from a familiar situation to solve a structurally similar but novel problem.
What is analogy?
This non-invasive method uses magnetic fields to temporarily disrupt neural activity in targeted brain areas to infer casual brain-behavior relationships.
What is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation?
These researchers have been attributed with establishing the embodied cognition theory.
Who are George Lakoff and Mark Johnson?