Cognitive & Neural Science

Concentration in Perception and Cognition offers research training in areas including:

• memory,
• attention,
• origin of subjective states,
• visual perception,
• multisensory perception,
• motion perception, and
• evolution of language,

Concentration in Biological Psychology and Neuroscience offers research training in:

• molecular neurobiology,
• biological rhythms,
• sexual differentiation of the nervous system and behaviour,
• psychopharmacology,
• olfaction,
• asymmetry of body and brain,
• neurobiology of reproductive behaviour,
• behavioural neuroscience of sleep,
• evolutionary psychology,
• evolutionary significance of anorexic behaviour, and
• behavioural neuroendocrinology

Research areas that span both disciplines include:

• neuropsychology of memory,
• cognitive neuroscience of attention and perception,
• individual and sex differences in cognitive function,
• consciousness,
• scientific critiques of pseudoscience,
• brain states and anomalistic subjective experiences, and
• animal communication.

Research resources include access to normal and clinical human subjects, and several normal and mutant strains of small mammals. Research training takes place in laboratories offering a variety of equipment including:

• a wide range of cognitive and neuropsychological testing materials,
• high-density EEG/ERP systems,
• extensive computer equipment,
• standard lesion, pharmacology and histology facilities,
• electrophysiology equipment,
• equipment for measuring daily behavioural and physiological rhythms in small mammals,
• a molecular neurobiology lab,
• access to a salivary radioimmunoassay lab for measuring hormone levels in humans, and
• microscopy and image analysis facilities.