Cognition

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

This course explores the scientific study of human cognition — how people acquire, represent, and use knowledge to guide their everyday functioning. Students learn about experimental and computational/mathematical methods of understanding cognition and building real-world tools and applications, and also dive into classic and contemporary research on several aspects of the human mind, such as memory, language, and social cognition through short lectures, podcasts, active discussions, and in-class activities.

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

Learning Assistant: Jennifer Ferry
Email: jferry@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 Materials Acknowledgement

This course has been developed using the materials and wisdom generously shared by the following faculty:

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-me/cognition. These materials are being actively developed.