Program Description

Professor Thomas Wickens Cognition, Brain, and Behavior Area Head

CBB Program Guide Affiliated Departments & Institutes Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Brain Imaging Center (BIC) Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Vision Science Department Graduate Program Application

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With an appreciation of a broad-based analysis of behavior, the Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (CBB) program within the Department of Psychology offers graduate training and research programs in two broad areas: Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology.


Programs in Cognitive Neuroscience focus on neuroimaging and neuropsychological approaches to human behavior. Functional neuroimaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), are used to study the neural bases of human behavior. Neuropsychological methods assess varieties of psychological dysfunction associated with brain damage or disease. Areas of specialty within this track include:

Sensory and Perceptual Processes

Attention and Working Memory

Learning and Memory

Emotion

Motor Control

Programs in Cognitive Psychology focus on behavioral analyses of cognitive processes. Cognitive models and empirical analyses are used to address the components of the mind. Areas of specialty within this track include:

Perceptual Processes

Attention

Learning and Memory

Language

Thinking and Problem Solving

Cognitive Development

Faculty

Core CBB Faculty

Bunge, Silvia	Assistant Professor	Cognitive neuroscience and developmental cognitive neuroscience; cognitive control and prefrontal function
D'Esposito, Mark	Professor	Working memory and frontal lobe function, functional MRI, cognitive neuroscience
Gopnik, Alison	Professor	Cognitive development, causal learning, psychology and philosophy
Griffiths, Thomas	Assistant Professor	Computational models of cognition, including causality, categorization, inductive inference, probabilistic reasoning, language learning, and language evolution; machine learning; Bayesian statistics
Hudson Kam, Carla	Assistant Professor	First and second language acquisition: In particular, I am interested in how these processes may constrain the form of languages, and how they might influence how languages change over time
Ivry, Richard	Professor	Motor and perceptual processes in normal and neurologically impaired populations; temporal processing, coordination, executive control, and attention; cognitive neuroscience
Kihlstrom, John	Professor	Cognition in personal and social contexts; unconscious mental processes; memory; hypnosis; social cognition; personality; experimental psychopathology; health cognition and behavior
Knight, Robert	Professor	Attention and memory; neuropsychology and physiology; cognitive neuroscience
Lombrozo, Tania	Assistant Professor	Cognitive psychology of explanation and understanding; concepts, theories, and causality; moral reasoning; philosophy and psychology
Palmer, Stephen	Professor	Visual perception, attention, and memory
Prinzmetal, William	Adjunct Associate Professor	Visual perception, attention and cognition
Robertson, Lynn	Adjunct Professor	Attention and perceptual organization in normal and neurological populations. Functional hemisphere asymmetries, neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience
Rosch, Eleanor	Professor	Cognition, concepts, causality, cross-cultural, Eastern psychologies, psychologies of religion
Shimamura, Arthur	Professor	Cognitive neuroscience, frontal lobe function, basic memory research
Walker, Matt	Assistant Professor	Impact of sleep on human brain function; brain plasticity; emotional regulation; affective & clinical mood disorders and aging.
Wallis, Jonathan	Assistant Professor	Executive control; Goal-directed behavior
Wickens, Thomas	Professor	Quantitative models in cognitive psychology; statistics and data analysis

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Affiliated CBB Faculty

Banks, Martin	Affiliated Professor	Visual space perception, spatially guided navigation, visual-haptic integration
Campos, Joseph	Professor	Social-emotional development in infancy, especially emotional communication and perception of emotion; and the relation of motor development to cognitive, social and emotional development
Hafter, Ervin	Emeritus
Markson, Lori	Assistant Professor	Conceptual development, word learning and categorization, pragmatics and theory of mind, development of social cognition
Mellers, Barbara	Affiliated Professor
Ranney, Michael	Affiliated Professor	Nature of explanations, in both formal and informal domains; representation and reorganization of knowledge about lay people's knowledge of physics
Riley, Donald (Al)	Emeritus
Rosenzweig, Mark	Emeritus
Slobin, Dan	Emeritus	Psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language and cognitive development, sign language, cross-cultural
Wessel, David	Affiliated Professor