10 Best Cognition Courses on Coursera
We compared 10 Cognition courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $99.00. 7 come from a named university or institution, including Duke University, Eindhoven University of Technology and Arizona State University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 10
- Price range
- $49.00 – $99.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 10 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "cognition" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $99.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Cognition, Motivation and Emotion
Offered by Pearson
Explore the mental processes that shape how we think, learn, solve problems, and make decisions. In this course, you'll examine key concepts in cognition and discover how the mind processes and interprets information. Yo...
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Medical Neuroscience
Offered by Duke University
Medical Neuroscience explores the functional organization and neurophysiology of the human central nervous system, while providing a neurobiological framework for understanding human behavior. In this course, you will di...
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Lightcap 2: Basics of light and its effects on humans
Offered by Eindhoven University of Technology
Light is one of our most valuable resources on this earth. It makes the world visible to us, is the major driver of the 24-hr sleep-wake cycle to which not only humans, but virtually all life on earth (fauna and flora) s...
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Human Factors & Usability Engineering: Designing for Humans
Offered by Arizona State University
Explore the multidimensional world of Human Factors and learn the strategies behind optimizing human interactions and performance. In this specialization, you will dive into the field of human factors, where science and...
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The Brain and Space
Offered by Duke University
This course is about how the brain creates our sense of spatial location from a variety of sensory and motor sources, and how this spatial sense in turn shapes our cognitive abilities. Knowing where things are is effortl...
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Fundamentals of Data Visualization
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Data is everywhere. Charts, graphs, and other types of information visualizations help people to make sense of this data. This course explores the design, development, and evaluation of such information visualizations. B...
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Introduction to Psychology
Offered by Yale University
What are people most afraid of? What do our dreams mean? Are we natural-born racists? What makes us happy? What are the causes and cures of mental illness? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, pro...
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Libertarian Free Will
Offered by Dartmouth College
Yes, we have free will! This Specialization will explore Libertarian Free Will and discuss philosophical arguments and neuroscientific evidence for and against its existence. In this Specialization, we will dismantle arg...
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Interaction Design
Offered by University of California San Diego
You will learn how to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration. You'll learn how to generate design ideas, techniques for quickly prototyping them, and how to use prototypes to get feedback from...
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Interpersonal, Developmental, and Evolutionary Perspectives of the Mind
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
In this course, we will explore how individual problem solving, judgment, and decision making can be influenced by interpersonal and developmental factors.
$49.00listed price
Best Cognition Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Cognition, Motivation and Emotion | Coursera | Pearson | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Medical Neuroscience | Coursera | Duke University | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Lightcap 2: Basics of light and its effects on humans | Coursera | Eindhoven University of Technology | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Human Factors & Usability Engineering: Designing for Humans | Coursera | Arizona State University | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | The Brain and Space | Coursera | Duke University | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Fundamentals of Data Visualization | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $99.00 | View → |
| 7 | Introduction to Psychology | Coursera | Yale University | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Libertarian Free Will | Coursera | Dartmouth College | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Interaction Design | Coursera | University of California San Diego | $49.00 | View → |
| 10 | Interpersonal, Developmental, and Evolutionary Perspectives of the Min... | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 10 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $99.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $50.00. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 7 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Duke University, Eindhoven University of Technology and Arizona State University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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