Cognitive Science: Minds, Brains, and Beyond

Our program offers a unique blend of traditional cognition and new directions.  With strengths in the areas of Language, Memory, and Perception, we are exploring cutting edge topics such as:

• Faces, speech, body movements, and embodied cognition
• How forgetting helps memory
• Metaphors and analogies between different domains of thought
• Emotion and cognitive aesthetics
• Conversation, discourse, and natural language use
• Cognition and technology
• Human performance, multi-tasking, attention, and models of information processing