MA in Psychology - Behavioral Neuroscience in Honolulu United States | University of Hawaii at Manoa

The Cognition, Neuroscience, & Social (CNS) program leads pioneering studies on human behavior, examining processes from cellular interactions to societal influences, investigating how brains function and behaviors emerge within social environments. To tackle intriguing questions in these domains, researchers and graduate students employ diverse methodologies including behavioral experiments, psychophysical measurements, computational modeling, eye-tracking and motion analysis in virtual environments, electroencephalography (EEG), functional MRI (fMRI), along with developmental, genetic, and animal model studies. CNS graduate students gain cross-disciplinary education spanning all three focus areas while actively contributing to existing and innovative research initiatives. Typically, students work under the guidance of faculty specializing in cognition, neuroscience, or social psychology, with opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration and mentorship.
Behavioral Neuroscience: This specialization adopts a research-driven, interdisciplinary strategy to understand behavior through psychological and neurobiological lenses. The curriculum equips students with comprehensive training in contemporary and classical techniques and theories for careers in behavioral neuroscience research and education. Current investigations concentrate on comparative cognition and the neural mechanisms underlying emotion, stress, learning, and memory processes