The Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences of Tsinghua University
(Reporter He Rui) Yesterday, Tsinghua University established the Department of Psychological and Cognitive Science.Liu Jia, director of the department, introduced that the department will strengthen comprehensive quality training on the basis of the Department of Psychology, integrate arts and sciences, combine science and engineering, and strive to cultivate a group of psychological talents who understand both Chinese society and the basic scientific learning foundation.
Founded in 1926, Tsinghua Psychological Discipline was one of the earliest departments of the university psychology established by China.Compared with the traditional psychology department, the Department of New Studies will carry out discipline construction from the two major research directions of cognition and intelligence, social and health, and involves computer simulation, social and cultural psychology, and social recognition of cognitive neuroscience, brain and behavior.Knowing development and other fields.
In the future, students of the Department of New Studies must have both arts and sciences.On the one hand, cutting -edge science and technology will enter the classroom. Students will use the school’s scientific and technological achievements in the fields of brain interface and nerve regulation to explore the basic issues such as the origin of consciousness and the essence of intelligence.Students also need to understand sociology and understand Chinese traditional thoughts and culture.
Experimental platforms such as the Tsinghua Happiness Technology Laboratory, the Child Cognitive Research Center, and the Non -Human Laboratory Research Center of Brain and Intelligent Laboratory will all become the classrooms of the new department.For example, the brain and intelligent laboratory will provide a comprehensive technology platform for the development of monkey breeding and cognitive behavior, electrical physiology, brain imaging, and genetically modified model development to help teachers and students explore the complex mechanisms of human brains from a psychological level.
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