Behavioural, Systems, and Cognitive Neuroscience
Research Focus
Behavioural Neuroscience
Uses animal models to understand brain-behaviour correlates. Examples include the influence of genetics, emotions, and other brain states on general behaviours as well as on learning and memory. Applications of this research include assessing the effectiveness of therapies for people with brain injuries.
Systems Neuroscience
Explores the dynamic neural mechanisms that correspond to behavioural state (for example sleep versus waking). It also explores how perceptual neural systems represent complex sensory stimuli such as species-specific calls.
Cognitive Neuroscience
Using experimental techniques, clinical studies of brain-damaged patients, and brain imaging methods, cognitive neuroscientists study the brain's role in higher cognitive functions such as in memory, language access, reasoning, and object recognition.
Associated Psychology Research Labs
- Attention and Action Lab (Dr. Anthony Singhal)
- Brain Rhythms Lab (Dr. Clayton Dickson)
- Mathewson Attention Perception and Performance Lab (Dr. Kyle Mathewson)
- Memory for Events (ME) Lab (Dr. Peggy St Jacques)
- Re: Cognition Lab (Dr. Ben Dyson)
- Representations Lab (Dr. Alona Fyshe)
- Visual Attention and Social Processes Lab (Dr. Dana Hayward)