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Our cognitive scientists innovate where humans intersect science, technology, and markets.

Our graduates learn to create interdisciplinary collaboration, technological development and innovation, leading to excellence and sustainable growth in both science and industry.

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Founding Director of the Center for Cognitive Science,
Professor Renata Geld
Applied Cognitive Science

MISSION

Create conditions for interdisciplinary collaboration, teamwork, research and teaching across departments, institutes, faculties, and universities in Croatia and abroad.

Foster visibility of our teachers' and students' work and scholarly achievements.

Encourage meaningful communication of science and community outreach.

Continuously aim to improve teaching, active learning, and creation of knowledge.

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VISION

Our graduates will be innovators and mediators between science and technology and market needs on the one hand, and humans and machines on the other.

They will initiate technological development, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration, which leads to excellence and sustainable growth in both science and industry.


CORE VALUES
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Collegiality and collaboration

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Ethics in teaching and research

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Appreciation of diversity

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Free exchange of ideas

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Appreciation of creative endeavors

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Sustainable growth

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🎓 Thesis Defense Announcement

Four master's theses to be defended probe human cognition across its interfaces with other people, artificial intelligence, everyday reasoning tools, and the body itself…

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🔍 Project Announcement

The Center for Cognitive Science joins Visage Technologies and the University of Rijeka's Faculty of Maritime Studies in Research and Development of a new platform for…

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📚 New Titles in Our Library

A few new titles have come into the library, spanning cognitive linguistics, machine consciousness, and Persian language pedagogy. Fictive Interaction: The Conversation…

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🎓 Thesis Defense Announcement

These three master's theses reflect the remarkable breadth of interdisciplinary inquiry at the heart of cognitive science, ranging from the philosophy of perception and…

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🎓 Thesis Defense Announcement

How do we know whether brain parcels truly preserve meaningful structure during rich, naturalistic stimulation? Bartol Banić tackles this question in a master’s thesis…

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