Cognitive/Neuroscience
Research areas include cognitive and neural basis of perception, cortical sensory information processing, molecular and cellular basis of memory, visual cognition, selective attention, working memory, long-term memory, executive control, action, language processing, brain plasticity, information processing and trauma, and other topics.
Since Summer 2002 the Department of Psychology houses a research-dedicated Neuroimaging Center (The Robert and Beverly Lewis Center for Neuroimaging) with a 3T MRI Scanner. Faculty and students of the department are the main users of this facility. Faculty and students also make use of the Transgenic Mouse Facility to apply new molecular and genetic tools in Systems Neuroscience research.
The Cognitive Psychology faculty are also members of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences, and the Institute for Neuroscience which have already established a record of facilitating interdisciplinary research in Systems Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognition and Instruction, and Social Cognition and Decision Making. Opportunities for training in the many disciplines related to Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience are provided through close links to these centers.