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The interdisciplinary Institute of Cognitive Science was established in June 2001 and officially inaugurated in November 2002. It was developed from the Institute for Semantic Information Analysis, which had existed since 1993.

("Perspectives for an Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück")
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Claus R. Rollinger, the former Director of the Institute, Speech on the occasion of the official inauguration of the Institute of Cognitive Science.)

The following professorships belong to the Institute:

• Biologically oriented Computer Vision: Prof. Dr. Gunther Heidemann
• Cognitive Modeling: Prof. Dr. Frank Jäkel
• Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science: Prof. Dr. Peter Bosch
• Philiosphy of Science & Metaphysics: Prof. Dr. Michael Baumgartner
• Artificial Intelligence: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
• Cognitive Psychology: N.N.
• Neurobiopsychology: Prof. Dr. Peter König
• Neuroinformatics: Prof. rer. nat. Gordon Pipa
• Philosophy of Mind and Cognition: Prof. Dr. Achim Stephan
• Philosophy of Mind: Prof. Dr. Sven Walter
• Neurocybernetics: Prof. Dr. Frank Pasemann

Associated professorships:

• Analytical Philosophy: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lenzen
• Differential Psychology: Prof. Dr. Julius Kuhl
• Work and Organizational Psychology PD Dr. Kai-Christoph Hamborg
• Neurobiology: Prof. Dr. Gunnar Jeserich
• Knowledge-based Systems: Prof. Joachim Hertzberg

The research of the Institute is aimed primarily at questions of higher cognitive functions - on the one hand as pure research on an interdisciplinary level with an interest in more comprehensive scientific knowledge, that is to say overlapping the traditional disciplines; at the same time, however, with the aim of preparing technologies with which the challenges of a modern information society can be met in a competent and innovative manner (see Research).

The members of the Institute teach in the following Programmes:

• Cognitive Science Bachelor Programme
• Cognitive Science Master's Programme
• Cognitive Science Doctorate Programme

(see Cognitive Science Study Programme)

In January 2003, the Bachelor and the Master's Programme were evaluated by the "Zentralen Evaluations- und Akkreditierungsagentur Hannover" (ZEvA) (certification document).