Cognitive Psychology PhD Program
Peter Pfordresher, Ph.D.
Cognitive Area Head
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