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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.

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.

  1. 1
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Lowest price here

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  2. 2
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  3. 3
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  4. 4
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  5. 5
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  6. 6
    Coursera Master's Degree University-backed

    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...

    $99.00
    listed price
  7. 7
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  8. 8
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  9. 9
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  10. 10
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit University-backed

    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.

    $49.00
    listed price

Best Cognition Courses on Coursera compared

# Course Provider Offered by Price
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 →

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