See advisor or Area Representative for further details. In Memory Memory is central to human thought. Faculty also hold interests in applications of memory to issues of eyewitness testimony, problem solving, memory in clinical settings, and autobiographical memory. Ongoing research includes studies of language development, language disorders, physiological correlates of language comprehension, comparisons of signed and spoken languages, and cross-cultural differences in languages and language use. In Attention and Information Processing Research centers about the human ability to control attention, motor coordination, spatial processing, and the ability to coordinate information received from several sources.
Research is conducted on both general laws and individual differences.
In Reasoning, Problem Solving and Decision Making Current research projects concern structure and process in deductive and inductive reasoning, problem solving, analogical transfer, judgment and decision making. Content areas include the law, medicine, business, and civil engineering. There are ongoing projects on reasoning in mathematics and physics, including applications of cognitive models to the design of instructional systems in science and mathematics. Several projects emphasize mathematical models or computer simulations of reasoning. In Cognitive Neuroscience Current research is focused on studying the neural underpinnings of language, memory, and visual perception in normal and special populations.