Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences

Logo of CBCS

Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (CBCS)[1] was established in year 2002 with the support of University Grants Commission (India) as a Centre of Excellence. CBCS is an independent centre of University of Allahabad. CBCS was formally inaugurated on 2 February 2003 by the then Hon'ble Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of India. The broad goals of the Centre are to promote teaching and research in Cognitive Science. Academic programs at CBCS include a Master and Doctoral program in Cognitive Science.

MSc programme

Introduction to the MSc program

The Centre currently offers a Master program (M.Sc.) in Cognitive Science, the first such course in the field of Cognitive Science in India. The master program was launched in 2002. The goal of the teaching program is to help to develop a richer appreciation of the mental processes as well as laws and principles that govern them. The focus is on mental processes including consciousness, perception, attention, knowledge acquisition, memory, decision making, reasoning, emotions, actions, creativity and several other aspects of the mind studied through methodologies encompassing psychology, neuroscience and computer science. There is a strong emphasis on research projects and exposure to various theoretical and experimental studies in Cognitive Science. Course work is interdisciplinary with courses spanning Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, Computational Modelling, Linguistics, and Philosophy. For more information about courses and other details, see www.cbcs.ac.in

Fees and financial aid

Fees payable: As per University of Allahabad rules.

Financial Assistantship : 3,000 INR/month will be provided as merit fellowships to Masters’ students by the Centre based on performance in the Masters Program.

Doctoral program

Students who have completed a Master’s program in Cognitive/Behavioural Sciences or related disciplines including Psychology, Neuroscience, Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Philosophy etc are eligible to apply for admission to the Doctoral Program. An entrance exam and interview will be conducted for selecting students to the D.Phil. Program. Students with NET/JRF/CSIR/GATE/ICMR are encouraged to apply for admission to the D.Phil. Program. Admission will be based on student’s performance at the postgraduate level, their aptitude in Cognitive Science, their performance in research as evidenced in their Master thesis or Project as well as their publications, and performance in the entrance exam and interview.


Research Areas

To pursue research activities and training in different areas of cognitive science, the Centre has multiple labs: Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Neuroinformatics and Intelligent Computing Lab, Visual Cognition Lab, Language and cognition lab, Bio-feedback lab, Virtual Reality lab, Actions lab, and Neuropsychology Lab. For details about faculty research and their publications, see faculty pages.[2]

Main Research Areas are:

References

  1. ↑ "Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad". www.cbcs.ac.in. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  2. ↑ "Faculty Pages | Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (CBCS), University of Allahabad". facweb.cbcs.ac.in. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
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