Cognitive engineering & Society

How does the human brain acquire or reacquire knowledge? How does it interact with technological objects or with other brains? Can Artificial Intelligence be used to model and simulate human cognition? Can our knowledge of human psychology and behaviour be put at the service of major societal challenges, such as health, education, or the fight against poverty? Cognitive sciences have an increasing number of applications in a wide variety of sectors: education, remediation, brain-machine interface, biomedical engineering, public policy, decision-making sciences, urban planning, etc. To meet the needs defined by these new applications, the Cogmaster offers a training in Cognitive Engineering. For the purposes of this major, the internship must take place in a private business or public administration.

NB: from 2021-2022, this major will be validated over the two years.

Master 1 - Semester 1

Concepts (pick 12 ECTS)

• SOCSCI 101 - Introduction to evolutionary anthropology 4 ECTS
• MOD 101 - Introduction to modeling mind, brain and behavior 4 ECTS
• PSYCH 101 - Introduction to cognitive psychology 4 ECTS

Methods (pick 10 ECTS)

• STATS 101 Introduction to Statistics for cognitive science 6 ECTS
• STATS 201 - Inferential and causal methods for cognitive science 6 ECTS
• DATA 101 DIY in data for advanced students (datacamp) 2 ECTS
• DATA 201 DIY in data for beginners (datacamp)  2 ECTS
• DATA 202 DIY in data for intermediate students (datacamp)  2 ECTS
• PSYCH 102 - Methods in psychological science 4 ECTS

Master 1 - Semester 2

Concepts (pick 12 ECTS)

• SOCSCI 201 - Cultural evolution 6 ECTS
• SOCSCI 202 - Decision science 6 ECTS
• SOCSCI 203 - Social cognition: brain and psychology 6 ECTS
• LING 203 Language Processing & Acquisition 6 ECTS
• External course: Algorithms for speech and natural language processing (MVA 2020) 6 ECTS

Methods (pick 4 ECTS)

• LITREV - Doing literature reviews like a pro 2 ECTS
• PROG 201 - Programming experiments in psychology and neurosciences 4 ECTS
• External course: Running and designing randomized controlled trials (VIDEO CLASS - JPAL) 4 ECTS

Real world

• Internship/mini project (1 or 2 days/week) 6 or 12 ECTS
• External course: Economics of Public Policy (PSE) 6 ECTS

Master 2 - Semester 1

Core Courses (pick 30 ECTS)

• COGENG 301 - Psychology and public policy 4 ECTS
• COGENG 302 - Augmented cognition 4 ECTS
• COGENG 303 - Cognitive science in the real world 4 ECTS
• COGSCI 303 - Education & cognition 6 ECTS
• COGSCI 304 - Science: curiosity, communication, and trust 4 ECTS
• COGSCI 314 - Robotic modelling approaches to Cognitive Science 6 ECTS
• COGSCI 316 Machine learning for cognitive sciences 6 ECTS
• COGSCI 317 Interplay between deep learning and cognitive science (4 ECTS)
• COGSCI 318 Theoretical Neuroscience (6 ECTS)
• External course: Changing Climate, changing behavior 3 ECTS 
• Internship preparation 6 ECTS

Master 2 - Semester 2 

Lab research internship with societal impact or Applied research internship in business or administrations.

Cognitive engineering internships website

This list is open. Internship offers can be made by contacting cognitive.engineering.paris@gmail.com at any time.


Please note that cognitive engineering internships must be co-supervised by a faculty affiliated with the Cogmaster.