Formal semantics, the syntax-semantics interface, lexical semantics, the interaction of information structure, discourse, and pragmatics with semantics and syntax, categorial grammar and related theories of syntax.
Faculty:AnderBois, Feiman, Jacobson
The experimental study of language acquisition and language use across linguistic domains and the relationship between experimental and theoretical approaches to language.
Faculty: AnderBois, Feiman, Cohen Priva, Morgan
Acoustic properties of phonetic categories of speech; physiological basis of articulation and perception; phonetic and phonological theories, phonetic/ phonological interface.
Faculty: Cohen Priva, Morgan
Computational, psychophysical and ecological approaches to the study of perceiving shape and motion, recognizing objects and scenes, processing auditory events, attention, perceptual learning, and controlling action.
Faculty: Domini, Festa, Serre, Song, Simmons, Warren, Watanabe, Welch
In human and animal models, visual attention, learning and memory, causal reasoning, pretend play, language, perception.
Faculty: Buchsbaum, Feiman, Morgan, Sobel, Simmons
Neural and computational models of processes such as motor control, vision, categorization, learning, reasoning, and language.
Faculty: Buchsbaum, FeldmanHall, Frank, Morgan, Serre, Shenhav, Sloman
Human memory, learning, and cognitive control; inductive inference, causal reasoning, and decision-making; moral reasoning, social cognition and theory of mind and their development.
Faculty: Badre, Buchsbaum, Feiman, FeldmanHall, Festa, Frank, Heindel, Krueger, Malle, Shenhav, Sloman, Sobel, Spoehr
The neural basis of cognitive functions such as attention, perception, learning, memory, emotional regulation, executive control, decision making, language.
Faculty: Badre, Burwell, FeldmanHall, Festa, Frank, Heindel, Shenhav, Watanabe
Neural bases and computational models of: interval timing, emotional development and dysfunction, auditory perception, flow sensing, memory, and higher cognitive functions; neuro-development, plasticity, and regeneration; canid communication and social cognition.
Faculty: Buchsbaum, Burwell, Colwill, Simmons