Research Areas

Cognition research

Cognition

Faculty members in Cognition investigate a wide range of areas in Cognitive Science using a variety of methods. Topics include language, scene processing, event segmentation, music, statistical learning, memory and consciousness.

Cognition

Development research

Development

Faculty members in the Development area are focused on interdisciplinary research on lifespan development. They are interested in bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to studying human development in context, as defined by Urie Bronfenbrenner.

Development

Rat research

Neuroscience

Faculty in the Neuroscience area are interested in the neurophysiological, social/contextual, and evolutionary bases for cognition and behavior in both humans and nonhuman animals.

Neuroscience

People laughing and socializing

Social and Personality

Faculty members in the Social & Personality area are interested in understanding how people think, feel, and act in real-world social situations.

Social and Personality

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