The first week of the course simply introduces course content, and then raises some interesting questions about the interdisciplinary nature of cognitive science. Specifically, what is a key difference between psychology and cognitive science? The links on the right take you to some example descriptions of cognitive science programs, which also can be used to develop some of the ideas that are gently introduced with this first lecture.

The buttons on the right also permit you to review individual slides on the web, or to view or print out a handout of the slides used in the lecture.