MASTER IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE (NEURO)

cog-SUP is a 2-year interdisciplinary and collaborative master’s program in cognitive science co-administered by Université Paris Cité and Sorbonne Université. It offers a very broad interdisciplinary openness and a fundamentally collaborative spirit, bringing together professors, researchers and students from very different backgrounds, united by common research questions.

The program is structured around a unified core curriculum complemented by robust disciplinary tracks. To maintain a well-balanced and foundationally sound interdisciplinary education, cog-SUP is organized into six different tracks. These tracks ensure the acquisition of genuine expertise in the concepts, methods, and techniques specific to each discipline, enhancing the clarity of skills associated with the diploma. The program establishes a common cultural foundation from the first year (M1) through a core curriculum and introductory courses to the different disciplines. In the second year (M2), the majority of courses are fully interdisciplinary and open to students from all tracks. Our goal is to cultivate cognitivists equipped with both robust disciplinary expertise and a broad interdisciplinary culture, essential elements for fostering meaningful collaboration across disciplines.

The cognitive neuroscience (NEURO) track explores how neural activity gives rise to cognitive and mental processes. In addition to the master’s core curriculum, students acquire a solid grasp of concepts and methods in experimental psychology and neuropsychology, which are essential for human experimentation in cognitive neuroscience. They also gain hands-on experience with a wide range of neuroscience techniques —from electrophysiology and neuroimaging to optogenetics, calcium imaging, and computational modeling— providing direct access to the neural mechanisms underlying cognition. While the curriculum includes a strong focus on human cognition, it also integrates systems-level and circuit-level approaches using animal models to explore causal relationships between brain activity and behavior. Beyond mastering these experimental methods, students are exposed to a broad spectrum of cognitive functions (e.g., perception, attention, memory, decision-making, consciousness, social and emotional processing) in their normal, pathological, and developmental dimensions. On completion of this program, students will be able to critically evaluate the scientific literature, design mechanistic experiments, collect and analyze behavioral and neurophysiological data across species, and communicate their results through scientific articles and presentations.

• Provide students with the knowledge and tools required in Cognitive Science
• Foster a fruitful collaborative spirit between students
• Respect scientific ethics
• Design and develop scientific projects
• Implement a project, define the objectives and context, carry out and evaluate the action
• Conduct and develop scientific and technical projects
• Analyze and interpret the results of scientific experiments
• Master specific methods and tools
• Use information and communication technologies
• Conduct information research, identify access modes, analyze relevance, explain and transmit
• Scientific communication in English
• Teamwork: integrating, positioning and collaborating
• Integrate into a professional environment: identify your skills and communicate them