Four specialization areas are represented in the graduate programs of Cognitive Science at METU.

• The Psychology group concentrates on cognitive processes such as perception, attention, reasoning and decision making through empirical research on human behavior. Courses offered in the psychology group include:
  
  • Visual and Spatial Cognition
  • Situated and Distributed Cognition
  • Oculomotor Control in Reading
  • Statistics and Research Methods
• The Language group investigates the nature of human language and its manifestation as a mental ability; it also involves research on (annotated) corpora as a means of supplementing qualitative studies. Courses offered in the language group include:
  
  • Theoretical Linguistics
  • Lexical Semantics
  • Language and Cognition
  • Language Acquisition
  • Computational Semantics
  • Discourse mechanisms
• The Computing group creates computational models of cognitive processes for purposes of understanding similar abilities in humans and designing intelligent systems. Courses offered in the computing group include:
  
  • Computational Models of Mind
  • Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Science
  • Probabilistic Models of Cognition
  • Cognition and Machine Learning
  • Connectionism and Human Behavior
  • Grammars, Combinators and Cognition
• The Philosophy group addresses questions about the essential nature of mind, knowledge, representation, and language. Courses offered in the philosophy group include:
  
  • Philosophy of Computer Science
  • Philosophy of Cognitive Science
  • Meaning and Logic
  • Dynamic Semantics
  Please check the full list of graduate courses to see the courses available under each specilization group.