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

The Cognition, Neuroscience, & Social (CNS) program pioneers innovative research on human behavior, examining processes from cellular to societal levels while investigating how brain function and behavior interact within social environments. Faculty and graduate students employ diverse methodologies including behavioral experiments, psychophysical measurements, computational modeling, virtual reality eye-tracking and motion analysis, EEG, fMRI, along with developmental, genetic, and animal studies to address compelling questions in these fields. CNS students gain cross-disciplinary education spanning all three domains, actively engaging in and directing both established and emerging research initiatives. While typically guided by faculty specializing in cognition, neuroscience, or social psychology, students also have opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration and mentorship.
Cognition: Our cognitive research encompasses fundamental processes like perception, attention, memory, thinking, and problem-solving, while also investigating cognitive development and its social influences. Current studies concentrate on uncovering the cognitive and neural foundations of human and animal cognition, particularly focusing on attention mechanisms, perceptual processes, and memory systems across sensory modalities in both typical and atypical populations.