In the second year, students are confronted with current research topics in cognitive science in interdisciplinary courses, and carry out an original and integrative research project in cognitive science. This implies being able to formulate a question, to confront it with existing publications, to develop an experimental or theoretical approach to address it, to analyse the results and to compare them to the current literature. Students will also write a scientific-publication-level thesis, and defend it clearly and convincingly in public.