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The graduate program in Cognition, Perception, and Cognitive Neuroscience (CPCN) focuses on how humans perceive, remember, think and act upon the world. The program includes two separate tracks. Faculty in the Cognition and Perception track have interests in problem solving, reasoning, human-computer interaction, language, spatial cognition, color vision, space perception, pattern vision, visual search, visual control of locomotion, and basic sensory processes. Faculty in the Cognitive Neuroscience track have interests in categorization, memory, attention, motor control, and laterality of brain function.
Faculty in CPCN employ a variety of approaches. These include measurement of performance, assessment of the neural substrates of behavior, and computational/mathematical modeling. Our research is concerned with the development of basic theories of perception and cognition, the biological basis of these processes, and the application of theories of perception and cognition to problems in information technology and education.
Students in either the Cognition and Perception track or the Cognitive Neuroscience track are encouraged to acquire a broad background in the cognitive and perceptual sciences as well as mastery of one or more specialty areas. In addition to developing an individualized research plan with a faculty advisor, they take a variety of courses and seminars and participate in the weekly CPCN Seminar. The seminar series attracts many prominent researchers in cognition, perception, and cognitive neuroscience to the campus and also offers opportunities for students and faculty within the program to present their current work. Students may also choose to enhance and broaden their training through interdisciplinary emphases in Cognitive Science and Quantitative Methods.
The laboratories of all faculty in the CPCN area are equipped with multiple computer systems, specialized input and output devices, and interfaces for the particular types of problems studied in the laboratory.
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