The graduate program in Cognition, Perception, and Cognitive Neuroscience (CPCN) is concerned with how humans perceive, remember, think, learn, and act upon the world. The program comprises broad faculty interests that include consciousness, problem solving, reasoning, memory, spatial cognition, language, visual perception, attention, human-computer interaction, categorization, the organization of goal directed behavior, and laterality of brain function.

The CPCN area has direct access to critical technologies that enable their research. This includes the UCSB Brain Imaging Center and to the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior, both of which are located within the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences' new building. In addition, the laboratories of the CPCN faculty include state of the art computational resources including cluster and grid engines and a range of specialized equipment, e.g., eye and limb tracking, high density electro-encephalography (EEG), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for investigating perception, cognition, and action, thus providing a multitude of research methods as well as affording students the opportunity to develop new methods.

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