ABSTRACT
The University of Osnabruck has developed into a major center for cognitive science teaching and research in Europe. The Cognitive Science program at Osnabrück has already attracted over 400 students from countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas. The course of study includes classes in the areas of artificial intelligence, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, mathematical and logical methods, neurobiology and -psychology, artificial neural networks, and robotics. Two aspects of computer-assisted learning systems have been of primary interest: the development of methods for identifying and explaining learner errors and the implementation of tools for the easy, comprehensive, cognitively adequate exploration and representation of individual knowledge. The Intelligent Systems Group focuses on research on problem solving and inductive learning. In the future, there are planning for studies on further philosophical issues of cognitive science, such as representationalism, the innateness debate, embodied embedded cognition, and on emotions.
