Cognitive Science courses

2023.09.12.

Cognitive Science courses in English are available for all ELTE students at the Faculty of Informatics in the Fall Semester 2023. The offered courses of the program can be taken separately according to the area of interest.

Cognitive Science is a multidisciplinary approach to the human mind. It offers a common platform and a common language for numerous traditional disciplines ranging from biology and brain science to computer science to linguistics and philosophy; it offers a bridge overarching between STEM sciences and the Humanities. The benefit of studying cognitive science lies in the fascinating integrative world view that it represents, thus enriching the disciplinary knowledge of the student’s own academic field. Successful completion of BSCS enables students to pursue graduate studies in the field of diverse sciences in a later stage of their academic career.

Every course is designed for the non-specialist student who has little or no prior familiarity with the given subject but is equipped with curiosity and is adequately intelligent to absorb new concepts, methods, and modes of thought.

The courses are available in English as part of the BSCS (Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science) part-time program. The program was established in 2003. Lecturers of the program are distinguished experts with noteworthy international research and teaching experience. Participation provides a great opportunity to build relationships with both lecturers and fellow foreign students.

Each BSCS course is a block course, held throughout the fall semester. A block course ends with an assessment in the form of typically a written or oral examination. All ELTE students can enroll in the Cognitive Science courses, or even the whole part-time program.

COURSES

Course title	Lecturer
Introduction to Cognitive Science	doc. RNDr. Martin Takáč, PhD. (Centre for Cognitive Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republik)
Cognitive Neuroscience	Dr. László Négyessy (Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics)
Cognitive Psychology	Ms Rozalia Ivady, Chief Psychometrician (Exacology)
Brain Imaging and Cognition	Dr. Lajos Kozák (Semmelweis University, Neuroradiology)
Cognitive Design	Máté Barna (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest)
Cognitive Informatics	Dr. Zoltán Somogyvári (Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics)
Cognitve Disorders	Andrea Berencsi, Bence Kas, and Bea Szenczi-Velkey (ELTE, Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Education)
Cognitive Informatics II	Balazs Ujfalussy (Institute of Experimental Medicine)
Philosophy of Language	Dr. Zsofia Zvolenszky (ELTE, Institute of Philosophy, Department of Logic)
Neural Computation	dr. Gabriella Keszthelyi (BME, Department of Stochastics and Dynamics)
Consciousness	Dr. György Kampis (ELTE, Faculty of Informatics)
Cognitive Development	Dr. Zoltán Jakab (ELTE, Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Education)