Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Psychology is the science of the human mind. It studies how we perceive the world around us, remember information, organize and access knowledge, reason and solve problems, make decisions, learn new facts and skills, acquire and use language, produce intelligent thought, and how the design of information can reduce the demands made on cognitive resources. Expressed differently, Cognitive Psychology is the study of the mental processes that underlie human behavior. This includes attention, concept formation, reasoning, learning, and language. Cognitive psychologists use a variety of techniques to test their hypotheses, such as experimental psychology, mathematical modelling, eyetracking, and brain imaging.
Research Areas
The Cognitive Development group investigates the basic processes underlying cognition by focusing on changes in cognitive abilities and behaviour during infancy and childhood.
Research in this area examines how knowledge is acquired and represented, and how it is flexibly used to meet cognitive demands.
Work examining the cognitive processes underpinning reasoning and problem solving involves research extending from fundamental to applied.