Cognition: The Science of How We Learn, Think, and Act (PSYC 2040)

Welcome! This is the course website for Cognition: The Science of How We Learn, Think, and Act (Spring 2024), taught by Dr. Abhilasha Kumar, at the Department of Psychology, Bowdoin College.

Instructor: Abhilasha Kumar
Email: a.kumar@bowdoin.edu (students, please put PSYC 2040 in the subject line)

Learning Assistant: Nick Sibiryakov
Email: nsibiryakov@bowdoin.edu (students, please put PSYC 2040 in the subject line)

Note to students

We will use the resources on this website along with Canvas throughout the semester. This website will always contain the most up-to-date syllabus as well as most reading material. The syllabus, learning modules, slides, and other resources can all be accessed using the tabs at the top of the page or through the sidebar.

You can start exploring the website now: Start with the syllabus!

Looking forward to meeting you in class!

If you have questions, please email me. If you think other students might have the same question, then please ask your question on the Canvas discussion boards for this course.

Course Textbook/Materials Acknowledgement

This course is based on the FANTASTIC free and open-source materials developed and shared by Dr. Matthew J. C. Crump:

Matthew J. C. Crump. (2021). Instances of Cognition: Questions, Methods, Findings, Explanations, Applications, and Implications. https://crumplab.com/cognition/textbook

We will follow the general structure of Dr. Crump’s textbook, with some modifications.

Students do not need to purchase or download the textbook in advance - all chapters will be made available (or are already available) on this course website via the learning modules

Open-educational resource

This is an open-educational resource that is free to use, share, copy, edit, and remix, with attribution and following the CC BY-SA 4.0 creative-commons license.

The suite is developed using open-source software (R, RStudio, Bookdown). The source code for this project is available at https://github.com/teaching-cognition.github.io/cognition. These materials are being actively developed.