Cognitive Neuroscience
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Dr. Thomas James |
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Dr. Joshua W. Brown Dr. Presron Garraghty Dr. Karin Harman James Dr. Sharlene D. Newman Dr. Luiz Pessoa Dr. Aina Puce Dr. Olaf Sporns |
Training focuses on learning one or more techniques used in cognitive neuroscience and performing extensive empirical research in the student’s chosen program of study. Faculty in the cognitive neuroscience area have strong associations with the Imaging Research Facility, which is located in the Psychology building, and houses a 3T MRI device.
Faculty in the cognitive neuroscience area share affiliations with other areas within PBS and other programs on campus. Thus, students are encouraged to seek multidisciplinary opportunities in both their research and coursework.
At the present time, the area has the following active research programs:
- Neural mechanisms of goal-directed behavior
- Brain-behavior relationships for the interaction of perception and action
- Neural correlates of learning in preschool children
- Neural mechanisms of multisensory object recognition
- Neural architectures supporting language comprehension and problem-solving
- Neural basis of the interactions between cognition and emotion
- Computational modeling of functional integration and binding in the cortex
- Adult neural plasticity in cortical and subcortical structures
- Neural mechanisms of social cognition
