Experimental Psychology: University of Cambridge

The Cambridge Department of Experimental Psychology is one of the leading British centres for research in the behavioural and cognitive sciences. There are good opportunities for research in cognitive neuroscience, behavioural neuroscience, clinical neuropsychology comparative and developmental cognition. Research in developmental psychology is facilitated by the relationships that have been established with local schools and with special units.

Key research areas

• Psychopathology: Asperger syndrome (S Baron-Cohen): (visit www.autismresearchcentre.com )
• Brain mechanisms of learning, memory and perception in the temporal lobe (T Bussey)
• Animal cognition and naturalistic animal models of learning and memory (NS Clayton)
• Associative learning and conditioning in animals (A Dickinson)
• Attention, vision and short-term memory (G Davis)
• Neural and psychological basis of drug addiction (BJ Everitt)
• Neural mechanisms of memory formation and persistence (J Lee)
• Brain mechanisms of language production, reading and spelling (M Miozzo)
• Sensation, perception, and information processing (visit: http://vision.psychol.cam.ac.uk ) (JD Mollon)
• The perception of sound in normally-hearing people, and in people with hearing impairments (visit: http://hearing.psychol.cam.ac.uk ) (BCJ Moore)
• Learning, memory and attentional processing in autism and normal development (KC Plaisted)
• Psychopharmacology; Neuropsychology of frontostriatal systems; Reward processes (TW Robbins)
• Cognitive development. The `executive functions' in early childhood and autism (J Russell)
• Computational modelling of the neural systems underlying learning, memory and perception (LM Saksida)
• The functional and neural structure of the language system. The website for the Centre for Speech and Language is: csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk (LK Tyler)

Further information:

• www.psychol.cam.ac.uk