Cognitive Psychology

At the heart of the Cognitive program is our shared interest in spatial cognition -- that is, how we think about, navigate, and perceive the world around us.  This overlapping focus has facilitated exciting joint projects between us; we pride ourselves on a spirit of collaboration that has led to synergistic research programs not only within our Cognitive area, but also with members of the other psychology sub-areas and with researchers from other departments.   (Students, as well as faculty, are encouraged to seek bridges between labs.)  With spatial cognition, broadly defined, as the hub of our program, our respective labs tackle core aspects of information-processing, such as scene representation, language, attention, emotion, and categorization.  We approach these topics by using a range of techniques (e.g., behavioral experiments, ERP, eye tracking, and computational modeling) and by testing diverse populations (e.g., infants, children, and clinical populations).

Our developmental research is enhanced by strong ties to the Early Learning Center, and our relationship with the University of Delaware’s interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Program (administered by the Linguistics Department) is particularly active.  As such, Cognitive faculty and students enjoy frequent opportunities to interact with and learn from members of the Linguistics, Philosophy, and Education departments.

For more information about our individual interests, click on our names below.  If you have questions about the Cognitive Psychology graduate program that are not answered on this site, you can contact the Director:

Helene Intraub

Email: intraub@udel.edu

Office:
229 Wolf Hall
(302) 831-8012

 

Faculty

James E. Hoffman
Visual Cognition, Selective Attention, Williams Syndrome, Event-related Brain Potentials

Helene Intraub
Spatial representation (visual and haptic), scene perception, and memory.

Steven B Most
Integrative approaches to attention and emotion, individual differences in “motivated perception"

Anna Papafragou
Psycholinguistics Language Acquisition

Jason Reiss
Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Attention, Perception, and Spatial Cognition (Healthy and Patient Populations)

Paul C Quinn
Developmental Cognitive Science