COS511: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology (CP, Foundations)

The course aims at providing an overview of the basic areas of research in the main sub-fields of Cognitive Psychology. Specifically, through the course students will acquire knowledge about the main theories and the most important empirical findings related to perception, attention, memory, mental imagery and knowledge representation, problem solving, and decision-making. Emphasis will be placed on discussing the links between Cognitive Psychology and related fields such as Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience. The course will also provide an introduction to the methods and procedures that are commonly used to study the mechanisms of cognition.