Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience
What Is Visual & Cognitive Neuroscience?
Visual & Cognitive Neuroscience is the study of the neural processes in the brain underlying visual and cognitive functions. It is a multidisciplinary area that combines the study of human thought, memory, language, visual perception and cognition, and decision making, and the study of the processes that occur in the central nervous system.
Study Topics
- Attention
- Change blindness
- Scene Perception
- Consciousness
- Decision-making
- Learning
- Memory
- Language
- Social cognition
- Emotions
Methods
- Psychophysics
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging
- Electroencephalography
- Electrocorticography
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Our Programs
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Major | Minor
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Doctoral
Visual & Cognitive Neuroscience Psychology Faculty and Research
Ben Balas, Ph.D. - Research Interests: High-level vision, face recognition, visual development, ERPs
Erin Conwell, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Early childhood development
Anna Finley, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Social and affective neuroscience, emotion regulation, self-regulation, well-being, healthy aging, loneliness
Jeffrey Johnson, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Behavior, attention, working memory
Linda Langley, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Cognitive aging, attention, visual search, cognitive training
Mark Nawrot, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Visual neuroscience, eye movements, depth perception, visual disorders
Laura Thomas, Ph.D. ~ Research Interests: Links between action and cognition, embodied cognition, attention, eye movements