Cognition and Information Processing

About This Course

Designing artifacts, products and systems that improve human performance requires a good understanding of human information processing capabilities and limitations. This course provides an essential introduction to several important areas in cognitive psychology. Students are firstly introduced to lower level cognitive processes such as sensation and perception, attention and memory. In the later part of the course, students will study higher level cognitive processes such as decision making, learning and languages. The relevance of each topic to the design and evaluation of systems and human factors studies will be highlighted and discussed.