Cognitive psychologists investigate the mental mechanisms that underlie perception, thought, action, and emotion. The cognitive faculty conduct research on language and discourse comprehension, learning, memory, visual processing, problem solving, question answering, attention, skill acquisition, cognitive aging, human factors, and human-computer interaction. An interdisciplinary Institute for Intelligent Systems has been established to integrate research in cognitive psychology with advances in artificial intelligence, neural modeling, philosophy, linguistics, and other fields in cognitive science. Click here to see a list of graduates from the cognitive track.
Social psychology includes a broad range of topics concerning how people act in social situations.
Faculty and students present their research at weekly research meetings .