Prospective Trainees
The focus of our graduate training is scholarly research. Students are encouraged to develop a research program, to collaborate with a variety of faculty and with other students, and to publish their research in leading journals. To this end, we have a focused course load that is designed to complement, rather than to detract from, time spent concentrating on research. Through research, course work, and a variety of advanced talk series and workshops, students are expected to achieve a high degree of intellectual breadth and depth.
Students also receive training in teaching as teaching assistants and interns, and teaching-related workshops.
Requirements
In addition to the departmental requirements, student in the Cognition program must take "Cognitive Psychology" as one of the core courses.
Course Work
Graduate students take courses from the Cognitive program, from other program areas (Social, Developmental, Neuroscience, Bio-psychology), and from other departments. Sample of Cognitive courses we offer:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Human Memory
- Perception and Action
- Processes of Judgment and Decision Making
- Sensation and Perception
- Psychology of Language
- Categorization and Reasoning
- Attention
- Speech Perception
- Cognitive Neuropsychology
- Social Neuroscience of Empathy and Sympathy
- Mental Representation
- Words and Categories
- Nonverbal Communication in Humans/Other Primates
- Learning and Inventing Language
- Gesture Over three Time spans
- Vision
- Advanced Topics in Color Vision
- Psychology of Well-Being
- The Study of Conflict, Culture, Attitudes, and Change
- Understanding Other Minds
