La lettre de motivation est l’un des documents les plus importants de votre dossier. Au master de sciences cognitives, la lettre de motivation est même le premier document que nous consultons lorsque nous étudions les candidatures.
Elle peut être écrire en français ou en anglais et faire au maximum 2000 mots.
Pourquoi est-elle si importante ?
The motivation letter (also called cover letter) is one of the most important documents in your application. For the cognitive science master’s program, it is even the first document we review when assessing applications.
It can be written in English or French and must not exceed 2000 words.
Why is it so important?
The content of this course changes every year; this year it will be taught by Pierre Jacob and will focus on:
Human mentalizing: its scope and limits
While formal semantics has been a success story of contemporary linguistics, it has been narrowly focused on spoken language. Systematic extensions of its research program have recently been explored: beyond spoken language, beyond human language, beyond language proper, and even beyond systems with an overt syntax. First, the development of sign language semantics calls for systems that integrate logical semantics with a rich iconic component.
The aim of the course is to address the significance of sign languages in discovering the properties of human ability for language. The course provides a deep understanding of the main issues of sign language linguistics at various levels. A selection of phenomena that are important for understanding the structure of sign languages and their relation to spoken languages is presented and discussed.
Prerequisites : None
ECTS : 6
What are the characteristics of the human brain that allow the existence and creation of language? How does the environment contribute to its development? Once language networks are stabilized, how do they shape the perception and production of a variety of stimuli? We draw on insights from current and classic research in many disciplines (e.g., linguistic theory & laboratory linguistics, experimental & developmental psychology, neuropsychology, neuroimaging, computational modeling) to shed light on some key psycholinguistic questions ranging from phonology to semantics.
The objective of this course is to give you the keys to understand the fundamental concepts in visual perception, following a multi-disciplinary approach in neuroscience, psychology and modeling. In neuroscience, the visual system is presented from the processing of the retinal image to the cortex. In the healthy adult human, we present how the visual scene is analyzed in its motion, form, color, and depth, and how attention modulates perception.
How do we follow a conversation in a busy café, or recognize a long-time favourite melody from a musical piece we may not have heard for years? Even though these feats seem natural and effortless to most of us, the acoustic problems to be solved are dauntingly complex.
