PhD in Psychology - Brain, Behavior and Cognition in Durham United States | University of New Hampshire

The Brain, Behavior, and Cognition program takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring cognitive processes and brain functionality. Designed to equip students with both theoretical knowledge and practical research skills, it prepares them for careers as scholars and educators in this field. Guidance is provided by nine Psychology faculty members, with opportunities for collaboration across departments like Animal and Nutritional Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Linguistics, and Zoology. The program's faculty bring diverse expertise in behavioral analysis, employing methods from experimental psychology, psychophysics, and contemporary neuroscience to investigate cognitive, perceptual, biological, and neurological processes.

While most graduate students contribute to faculty-led research initiatives, they are also supported in pursuing independent research directions. Current faculty research focuses on areas including memory systems, reading comprehension, language acquisition, neural bases of memory and emotional disorders, drug effects on behavior, immune-nervous system interactions, animal behavior studies, comparative psychology, visual perception (including depth perception, color vision, and optical physiology), and temporal/spatial aspects of visual illusions.