Summary

Understanding cognition, which includes processes such as attention, perception, memory, reading and language, is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. As well as deciphering the workings of the healthy mind and brain, cognitive and brain scientists also investigate disorders such as anxiety, autism, dyslexia, post-traumatic stress, and schizophrenia.

The Bachelor of Cognitive and Brain Sciences – the only degree of its kind in Australia – will provide you with a strong foundation in the rapidly growing fields of cognitive science, neuroscience and computation, with an emphasis on building your critical-thinking and research skills in areas such as science communication, statistics and programming.

Key features

• Participate in hands-on learning

   

  Develop your research skills through active learning experiences, lab sessions and other research activities.

• Gain research experience

   

  Access leading human brain imaging and VR labs to complete intensive projects that will develop your competence as a researcher.

• Learn from active researchers

   

  Study in our Reading Clinic, Perception in Action Research Centre, Centre for Atypical Neurodevelopment and more.

• Enhance your learning within our unique health precinct

   

  Study within our health precinct, which includes behavioural, cognition and language acquisition laboratories and clinics.