The group is quite large, spanning areas of interest from the fundamentals of perception to large-scale models of memory and cognition. Yet, despite the size and diversity of the group, there is considerable interaction among group members and their graduate students. There are many opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration, and more informal interaction occurs at the weekly meetings of the Research Group in Perception and the Ebbinghaus Empire, a tradition for over 25 years. Perception Sensation and perception are basic concerns of area members. Researchers study visual and auditory and tactile perception, seeking to understand how the nervous system gathers and interprets information from the vast array of sensory stimulation that reaches us.
Questions being addressed include the following.
Memory Memory has been a focal area of research at the University of Toronto for decades, and many fundamental ideas about memory are based on work that was initially done here. Currently, memory researchers are asking the following questions. Cognition Other aspects of cognition studied in the department include attention, reading, language, and problem solving. Here again are some representative questions. There are firm connections to the developmental, animal behaviour, and brain and behaviour groups, and the connections to social psychology are evolving.