UCSD Layoff from Career Appointment: Apply by 8/15/24 for consideration with preference for rehire. All layoff applicants should contact their Employment Advisor. Special Selection Applicants: Apply by 8/19/24. Eligible Special Selection clients should contact their Disability Counselor for assistance.DESCRIPTIONThe Department of Cognitive Science promotes the study of learning, perception, action, and interaction in the physical, material, social, and cultural world. The approach is inter-disciplinary employing ideas and techniques from a number of contributing disciplines, including anthropology, communications, computer science, ethology, electrical engineering, linguistics, neurology, neurosciences, philosop