Cognitive Psychology PhD Program
Peter Pfordresher, Ph.D.
Cognitive Area Head
Course Descriptions
Program Highlights
- Learn by Doing
- Guaranteed Exposure to Multiple Faculty and Labs
- Balanced Coursework and Research Intensive Components
- A Timeline for Results
- A Good Placement History
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A Concentration of Psychology of Language Labs, working on:
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Expertise in:
- Animal Cognition (Dent, Mercado, Smith)
- Attention (Sawusch)
- Auditory Perception (Dent, Luce, Mercado, Pfordresher, Sawusch)
- Categorization (Smith)
- Cognitive Neuroscience (Dent, Mauner, Mercado, Pfordresher)
- Computational Modeling (Luce, Mercado, Sawusch, Pfordresher)
- Eye Movements and Cognition (Luce, Mauner)
- Foundations of Cognitive Science (all faculty)
- Learning (Mercado, Smith)
- Memory (Mercado)
- Metacognition (Smith)
- Motor Control (Pfordresher)
- Music Psychology (Smith, Pfordresher)
- Statistics (Luce, Pfordresher)
Program Faculty
Faculty who may be accepting graduate students for the upcoming academic year are indicated by an asterisk (*).
- *Luce, Paul, Ph.D.
Word recognition; lexical access; speech perception and production; psycholinguistics. - *Mauner, Gail, Ph.D.
Sentence and discourse processing; reading; anaphora; language processing in neurogenically impaired populations. - *Mercado, Eduardo, III, Ph.D.
Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory. - *Pfordresher, Peter, Ph.D.
The way in which the mind organizes sequences of events in real time during production and perception. - *Sawusch, James, Ph.D.
Speech perception; attention; auditory memory; computational modeling; psycholinguistics. - *Smith, J. David, Ph.D.
Animal cognition; categorization; metacognition and self-awareness; psychology of music and aesthetics.
Affiliated and Adjunct Faculty
- Benedict, Ralph, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomendial Sciences; Cognitive Impairments in Multiple Sclerosis, ERPs, Neuropsychological Psychometrics. - Charles-Luce, Jan, Ph.D.
Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences. Speech production and perception, language acquisition and disorders. - Dent, Micheal, Ph.D.
Behavioral Neuroscience Area; Behavioral and physiological measures of the perception of complex auditory stimuli in birds and mammals. - Koenig, Jean-Pierre, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics; Semantics, Syntax-Semantics interface, organization and processing of Lexical and Syntactic knowledge, Gricean Pragmatics, Natural Language Processing.
The Center for Cognitive Science - with a Ph.D. CogSci Track
- Philosophy of Mind, Language and Science
- Cognitive Science Theory
Well-Equipped Labs with a supportive research infrastructure
Specific lab information is listed on this link
A note to potential cognitive students...
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*Please note: Applications for both the Masters and the Ph.D. programs for Fall 2010 will be available online on August 1, 2009. The final deadline for Fall 2010 Ph.D. applications will be December 1, 2009.