Perception, Cognition and Development
The major areas of psychology represented in the department are Perception, Cognition and Development, Behavioral and Evolutionary Neuroscience, and Personality and Social Psychology. These areas are very broadly defined, and the courses are quite diverse.
Cornell professor Ulric Neisser introduced the term "Cognitive Psychology" in 1967, with a book that gave the name to the field and helped launch the cognitive revolution. According to Neisser, cognitive psychology is the study of how people learn, structure, store and use knowledge. This concise definition describes well the Perception, Cognition and Development area of the graduate field of psychology at Cornell. Researchers working in this area study human perception, language and memory, as well as the development of various cognitive functions in infants. The methods they use are diverse, ranging from human behavioral experiments in development, perception and psycholinguistics, through computational modeling and simulation of vision and language processes, to human electrophysiology by means of event-related potential (ERP) analysis.
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