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Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary field that studies the fundamental workings of cognition and the mind. It investigates perception, action, language, knowledge, development, and thinking from multiple perspectives—theoretical, experimental, and computational—with the aim of gaining a better understanding of human cognition and the nature of intelligent systems. The nature of mental representations and their acquisition and use are important themes, as are the comparison between human and artificial intelligence, and the relation between human cognition and its biological foundations.

The graduate will be able to address the leadership of educational projects that require instructional design processes. For this reason, it will have the capacities to support the choice of educational models, the selection of learning strategies, the determination of learning resources, as well as the implementation of evaluation mechanisms for the design of learning experiences in virtual environments.