Cognitive Science studies phenomena such as perception and attention, memory and learning, planning, decision-making and problem solving, feeling, thinking, speaking and acting. In the 1970s, it evolved from a series of scientific/technical and humanities-related individual subjects into an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary subject. On the one hand, it is about understanding cognitive phenomena in biological systems. On the other hand, the knowledge gained is used to create artificial systems with comparable skills. While cognition was originally understood as a symbol processing process in the brain, cognitive research today is interested in a broad spectrum of phenomena that often also include the body and parts of the environment. Methods such as those of machine learning in artificial neural networks nevertheless remain central to cognitive research. However, it also uses modern measurement methods (e.g. EEG, eye tracking) and allows test subjects to explore virtual realities or examines the social behaviour of primates in order to learn more about cognition beyond the classic laboratory situation. Philosophical questions such as those on the ethics of artificial intelligence are not neglected either.

The Bachelor´s degree course in Cognitive Science offers students a broad introduction to the methodological and content-related fundamentals of scientific research in the sub-areas of cognitive science: (computer) linguistics, cognitive (neuro)psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroinformatics, neurosciences and philosophy of cognitive science. In addition, students are introduced to areas of computer science and mathematics that are relevant to cognitive science. Based on these fundamentals, they develop an initial specialisation. They choose from a wide range of courses to suit their interests. A stay at a university abroad, which is an integral part of the degree course, allows you to gain your first international experience. In the last semester of the course, students finally work on their first major research project and write their Bachelor's thesis during it.