Afterwards O ur graduate program is designed to prepare students for careers as researchers, scholars, and teachers in academic or applied settings. Through coursework and research apprenticeships, students gain a broad competence in the scientific issues and experimental and computational methods relevant across the fields, and they develop a deeper expertise in one or more research specializations. P rograms of study are highly individualized. Decisions about research and coursework are made in close collaboration with a research advisor and a graduate committee chosen by each student, based on the individual's own goals and interests.
Students often change research areas and advisors as their interests develop.
The program offers several areas of specialization. Visual perception and action Psychophysical and ecological approaches to the problems of perceiving shape and motion, recognizing objects and scenes, and controlling action in real-world environments. The study of higher cognitive functions in humans and their underlying neural bases. Language processing The experimental study of language comprehension and production at the lexical, syntactic and semantic levels. Language acquisition Experimental and cross-linguistic study of the acquisition of phonology, syntax, and segmentation from infancy to childhood, and its relationship to linguistic theory.