Cognitive Psychology Program Overview
Cognition is thought, and cognitive psychologists investigate the what, where, when, how, and why of thinking, and how those aspects pertain to human and animal behavior.
Cognition involves attention, perception, memory, brain physiology, reasoning, language, decision making, and many other areas that cognitive psychologists actively study.
Program Details
The Cognitive Program emphasizes:
- The information processing approach to the study of human behavior
- Computational modeling
- The application of the data and methodologies of cognitive psychology to real-world problems
- Cognitive neuroscience
Many of the ongoing research programs are investigating the role of perception and memory in the comprehension of written and spoken language.
Other areas of specialization include:
- knowledge representation
- brain mechanisms underlying cognition
- attention
- human-computer interaction
We encourage our students to take advantage of the department's other strengths in Engineering and Social Psychology. Many of our students further diversify their skills by taking internships.