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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The graduate program in Cognition and Perception offers training and specializationin cognition and visual and auditory perception. Particular strengths include cognitive development, language, reading, speech perception, memory perceptual organization reasoning binocular vision, visual psychophysics and physiology, auditory psychophysics, and mathematical modeling.

Research activities are emphasized throughout the entire program.

The program's philosophy has permitted some recent graduates of the program to take academic jobs, while others have obtained positions in industry or in public institutions.

The program has excellent relationships with related units on campus such as the Children's Research Lab, the Center for Perceptual Systems, the Auditory Cognition and Speech Perception Lab, the Institute for Neuroscience, and the Departments of Computer Sciences, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Linguistics and Neurobiology.

Students in the area of Cognition and Perception may become affiliated with the Institute for Neuroscience and obtain an interdisciplinary degree in Psychology and Neuroscience. 

The area has strong connections with the Imaging Research Center.

Students can complete a special track in Neuroimaging. Students in the area of Cognition and Perception may also become affiliated with the Institute for Neuroscience and obtain an interdisciplinary degree in Psychology and Neuroscience.