His research focuses on the neural substrates of learning and memory. He earned a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2002, and his dissertation dealt with contributions of two brain regions involved in emotion (the amygdaloid complex and orbital frontal cortex) to olfactory learning. Prior to arriving at Drew in 2007, Dr. Cousens was a post-doctoral fellow in neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine and at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Cousens teaches several courses in both the psychology and neuroscience programs, including Introduction to Psychology, Research Methods, Learning and Memory, and Cognitive Neuroscience.