Research

Our Research Areas

The Cognitive Neuroscience Hub brings together research spanning the mechanisms, development and application of human cognition. Our researchers investigate how people perceive, learn, remember, make decisions and respond to the world around them, using behavioural experiments, neuroimaging, computational modelling and other neuroscientific approaches.

Our research spans several interconnected areas:

Brain and Cognition

We investigate the cognitive and neural processes underlying perception, attention, memory, learning and decision-making. Our research examines how these processes interact to shapre how we understand and respond to the world.

Emotion and Human Experience

We explore how emotion, motivation, pain and subjective experience interact with cognition and behaviour. Research in this area examines how internal states influence perception, decision-making and behaviour.

Decision-Making and Computational Neuroscience

We use computational modelling and neuroscience to understand how people learn, make predictions and make decisions under uncertainty. This work links behavioural patterns with the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms.

Development and Cognitive Disorders

We investigate how the brain and cognitive processes develop, change and become disrupted across the lifespan. Research includes developmental differences, ageing, neurological conditions and psychiatric disorders.

Neuroscience Methods

Our researchers combine behavioural experiments with neuroimaging, EEG, eye tracking, computational modelling and artificial intelligence. These approaches allow us to examine cognition across behavioural, neural and computational levels.