Cognitive Sciences is a multidisciplinary science degree combining different perspectives and research methodologies and applying them to mental processes such as perception, learning, memory, language, cognition, decision-making, creativity, emotions, group relations, and consciousness. The material, research methods, and findings are anchored in several key fields: psychology and the study of the processes that enable mental processes and their behavioral expression; computer science and information systems (disciplines focusing on the computational aspect of intelligent systems), neuroscience (the biological, physiological, and anatomical aspects of human behavior and their neural networks), philosophy (the study of assumptions and axioms, such as mental representation, computation analogy, consciousness, and semantics) and linguistics (the study of the cognitive system of language). Cognitive sciences uniquely combines approaches and results from many disciplines to discover the underlying processes behind mental phenomena.

Due to the update in the admission requirements followed COVID-19 outbreak, please check the Hebrew website here.

• Applicants must meet the University’s general admission requirements  as described in the website at the required departmental level.
• Criteria for acceptance to the combined Information Systems, Phylosophy, Psychology and Hebrew language programs: A weighted grade for admission: 680. Weighted score for application to the Exceptions Committee: candidates with a weighted grade of 650-679 who fulfilled the University and departmental admission criteria. Hebrew Proficiency Test score of 110 for candidates from non-Hebrew schools. Applicants must meet a minimum score of 80 in the 4-study units mathematics matriculation exam or 70 in the 5-study units math matriculation exam.
• Criteria for acceptance to all other combined programs: Weighted score of 700, 715 psychometric, high school math score of 90  (4-units) or 75 (5-units), 110 in the Hebrew Proficiency Test. The departmental Exceptions Committee will review applicants who are on the borderline of the above mentioned requirements. Admission requirements for both departments combined must be met.

• Recommended study programs:
• Cognitive Science and Computer Science
• Cognitive Science and Information Systems
• Cognitive Science and Psychology
• Cognitive Science and Philosophy
• Cognitive Science and Hebrew
• For other combinations, students are advised to contact the secretary of the Cognition Science Department.

The aim of the program is to train experts with a broad knowledge base and rich, creative thinking. Program graduates are expected to continue their studies both in specific aspects of cognitive science, including: cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, computer science, philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and linguistics–and in interdisciplinary programs such as behavioral brain studies, brain and psychopathology, and cognitive science. The program aims to give graduates a broad knowledge base in cognitive science and develop their interdisciplinary thinking as early as during their undergraduate studies. The main emphasis of the program is to facilitate complex and diversified thinking that will allow a successful entry of graduates into academia and industry. Graduates have unique advantages and experience in different research areas and the integration between them, that will enable them, in the future, to be an important part of the research infrastructure of one of the most fascinating and important fields in the world.