Cognitive

Faculty in the Cognitive area investigate a wide range of topics including language, meaning and mental representation, perception, learning, memory, decision making and reasoning. Our methods include behavioral experimentation, computational and mathematical modeling, naturalistic observation and cross-cultural fieldwork, and neuro-imaging. We collaborate with neurophysiologists, neuropsychologists, developmental psychologists, linguists, and anthropologists. Insights and methods from Cognitive Psychology are widely applied in fields such as law, medicine, engineering and design, business, politics, and education.