Cognitive Science

Description

Cognitive Science is the study of mental activities such as language, perception, memory, and reasoning, using scientific methods of experimentation, developmental study, neuroscience, philosophy, and computational modeling. UC Merced’s cognitive scientists can address a range of questions about human and artificial cognition, intelligence and mental health with a solid scientific background.

Associated Faculty

  • Evan Heit (Categorization, reasoning and memory)
  • Teenie Matlock (psychology of language, abstract concepts, spatial cognition, gesture, mental imagery)
  • Yarrow Dunham (prejudice, stereotyping, social groups and children, developmental psychology)
  • Gregg Camfield (Literature, humor, Mark Twain; Neuroscience and the arts)