BSc Honours in Artificial Intelligence and Psychology (GC68)

This degree is offered jointly with the Psychology group of the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.

How does what we see and do relate to the way we think and feel? Both Artificial Intelligence and Psychology aim to advance our understanding of the ways in which perception and cognition interact to produce intelligent behaviour.

I have recently graduated with BSc in Artificial Intelligence and Psychology from the School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh. I have not only received the highest quality of teaching and enjoyed top resources and facilities, but I have gained insight into what makes a graduate stand out from the crowd. And as a female in a male-dominated employment sector, I feel I have a head start. I am ambitiously pursuing a career in Bioinformatics, and have recently been offered studentships at three different UK universities to undertake Masters programmes in Bioinformatics. Besides career, I pursue my interests: poetry, travelling, scubadiving, fashion design, marathon training and languages.

The courses offered to students on this degree provide a firm grounding in several of the areas that have proved to be of great interest to both disciplines. Such areas include: computational vision and the psychology of human visual processing; natural language processing and psycholinguistics; knowledge representation and the organisation of human memory; reasoning in knowledge based systems and human problem solving; neural net technology and neuroscience; knowledge acquisition and clinical psychology.

For details of degree structure and content, please see degree programme specification.

What is special about the Edinburgh degree programme

At the end of the degree course, students will be particularly well qualified to pursue research in either AI or Cognitive Psychology (or both). They will be in demand in both academic and industrial research and development environments.

Professional Recognition

This degree carries accreditation from the British Psychological Society, subject to completion of certain modules in Psychology. Should you decide to take this course, you will be given extensive guidance on choice of modules.

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