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The Laboratory for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience is directed by Professor F. Gregory Ashby. The research conducted in the lab combines cognitive neuroscience, computational modeling, and empirical data collection to study human categorization, attention, learning, memory, decision-making, and emotion. The goals are to understand the perceptual, cognitive, and neural processes that mediate these phenomena, and to build and test neurobiologically plausible computational models. The lab conducts behavioral studies of healthy adults and of certain neuropsychological groups (e.g., Parkinson's disease patients), as well as neuroimaging (i.e., fMRI) studies. In addition, single-cell recording data are used to test and calibrate the computational models (although electrophysiological data are not collected in the lab).