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How much overlap is there between Introduction to Cognitive Science and Brain & Thought?

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How much overlap is there between Introduction to Cognitive Science and Brain & Thought?

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Not much. Though the topics of the course overlap considerably (e.g. with both covering visual perception, language, and consciousness), the specific approaches and material discussed hardly overlap at all. Brain & Thought is devoted almost entirely to neuroscientific perspectives on these topics, whereas Introduction to Cognitive Science covers many higher-level perspectives in addition to neuroscience — and even the bits of this course that do explicitly focus on neuroscience do so with a different perspective. Introduction to Cognitive Science also includes lectures on several topics that are not discussed in Brain & Thought (e.g. modularity, innateness, computation, reasoning and decision-making, infant cognition, and the cognitive science of love/sex/attraction), and the reverse is also true (e.g. motor behavior, olfaction, taste, and Alzheimer’s Disease). In addition, Introduction to Cognitive Science includes material drawn from several different fields beyond neuroscience, inc

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