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Head of Program: A. Sumru Ozsoy

Executive Committee: Ethem Alpaydin, Mine Demiralp, Ayhan Koc,Karanfil Soyhun

Professors: H. Levent Akin, I. Ercan Alp, Ethem Alpaydin, Resit Canbeyli, Fikret Gurgen, Ayhan Koc, A. Sumru Ozsoy, A.C. Cem Say, E. Eser Taylan

Associate Professors: Ilhan Inan, Berna Kilinc, Ali Tekcan

Assistant Professors: Didar Akar, Mine Nakipoglu-Demiralp, Ali Karatay, Meltem Kelepir, Balkiz Ozturk, Karanfil Soyhun, Pinar Yolum

The Master of Arts Program in Cognitive Science aims at introducing the students to the investigation of cognitive processes of various dimensions. It is offered through the cooperation of the Computer Engineering, Linguistics, Psychology and Philosophy departments.

To fulfill the requirements of the M.A. program, students must complete a total of 28 credits of course work and submit a thesis supervised by their academic advisor. The coursework of the first semester consists of the 'core' courses of the four disciplines. In the second semester, students are expected to take area and complementary electives, allowing them to specialize in one (maximum two) disciplines. In the second year, students are expected to write a thesis in the area in which they have specialized.

Each discipline has an advisor who supervises the coursework of the students who want to specialize in that field.

Each student is expected to take remedial courses the first year s/he is accepted into the program. This is to ensure a uniform background for the students. The advisor determines the nature of the remedial courses each student is expected to take. A student may have to take up to 8 courses during the remedial year.

The courses and their distribution in terms of the semester during the academic year are as follows:

M.A. PROGRAM IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE

First Year

Second Year

I. Remedial courses*

*Can also be taken as area elective courses by the consent of the Cognitive Science Executive Committee.

II. Area/elective course list*

Computer Engineering
CmpE 530 Mathematical Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
CmpE 544 Pattern Recognition
CmpE 545 Artificial Neural Networks
CmpE 561 Natural Language Processing
CmpE 565 Autonomous Robots
CmpE 622 Computer Vision
CmpE 623 Speech Processing
CmpE 630 Intelligent Control

*Computer Engineering area electives might be selected from the list given above or other courses with the CMPE code that are related to cognitive science with the consent of the Cognitive Science Executive Committee.

Philosophy
PHIL 501 Metaphysics*
PHIL 503 Cosmology/Philosophy of Nature*
PHIL 505 Theory of Knowledge
PHIL 515 Topics in History of Philosophy*
PHIL 517 Topics in Contemporary Philosophy*
PHIL 522 Mathematical Logic
PHIL 524 Philosophy of Natural Sciences*
PHIL 580-588 Special Topics in Philosophy*
PHIL 591-599 Special Topics in Philosophy*
PHIL 635 Naturalism*
PHIL 637 Contemporary Philosophy*
PHIL 648 Philosophy of Language
PHIL 652 Philosophy of Mind
PHIL 674 Topics in the Philosophy of Science*
PHIL 676 Topics in Logic
PHIL 682 Freedom and Determinism

*With the consent of the Cognitive Science Executive Committee

Psychology
PSY 521 Advanced Cognitive Psychology
PSY 523 Advanced Learning Theory
PSY 524 Psycholinguistics
PSY 528 Memory
PSY 531 Advanced Developmental Psychology
PSY 532 Cognitive Development
PSY 543 Culture and Behavior*
PSY 571 Psychobiology
PSY 572 Advanced Neoroscience
PSY 588-591 Special topics in Cognitive Psychology*
PSY 592-595 Special topics in Developmental Psychology*

*With the consent of the Cognitive Science Executive Committee

Linguistics
LING 512 Morphological Analysis
LING 522 English-Turkish Contrastive Grammar and its Application
LING 531 Typology
LING 580-599 Topics in Linguistic Theory - courses related to Cognitive Science*

*With the consent of the Cognitive Science Executive Committee

C. Other Courses

COGS 500 Introduction to Cognitive Science
COGS 579 Graduate Seminar in Cognitive Science

COURSE DESCRIPTION

COGS 500 Introduction to Cognitive Science (Bilissel Bilime Giris) (3+0+0) 3
Introduction of basic concepts, approaches and issues in the field of cognitive science to increase the awareness of the students to the questions raised in the disciplines of computer science, linguistics, philosophy and psychology; focus on the interaction of these disciplines in approaching the study of the mind; specialization on topics central to cognitive science such as the nature of mental representation, reasoning, perception, language use, learning as well as other cognitive processes of humans and other intelligent systems.

COGS 579 Graduate Seminar (Lisansüstü Seminer) (0+1+0) 0 P/F
The widening of students' perspectives and awareness of topics of interest to cognitive science through seminars offered by faculty, graduating thesis students, and invited guests from industry, government, business, and academia.

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