Cognitive Psychology

Members of the cognitive psychology group conduct research into many and varied aspects of higher level cognitive functioning, including processes of attention, memory, language, reasoning and decision making. In some cases, the focus of the research is on understanding a cognitive process in its skilled form, while other researchers are interested in the acquisition of particular cognitive functions and the ways in which they can be impaired.

Areas of Expertise:

• reading and spelling
• models of printed word identification
• spoken language processing
• cognitive neuropsychology
• social cognition
• human memory
• language comprehension
• decision making and problem solving
• mathematical cognition
• psychology of music
  • Music Neuroscience Laboratory
  • Mathematical Cognition Development Lab
  • Language and Cognition Lab

Research Staff:

Virginia Holmes, Bob Reeve, Alexander Wearing, Sarah Wilson