认知与认知神经科学（CCN）计划将调动范德比尔特（Vanderbilt）的30多名心理科学系的人才，以研究感知，注意力，记忆力，思维和问题解决方面的基本问题。
The Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) program marshals the talents of over 30 faculty in Psychological Sciences at Vanderbilt to examine fundamental problems in perception, attention, memory, thinking, and problem solving. Specialties within these broad areas of research include:<br><br>View list of Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience faculty here<br><br>Visual Perception (binocular vision, motion perception, object recognition, perception of geometric structure, perceptual learning and expertise, scene perception, change detection, perceptual development)<br>Attention and Performance (focused attention, dual-task performance, executive control, task switching, and automatization)<br>Concepts and Categories (categorization, conceptual structure, knowledge representation)<br>Thinking and Reasoning (causal reasoning, analogical problem solving, decision making, numerical reasoning, thinking with diagrams, metacognition)<br>Perception and Action (perceptual-motor coordination, development of reaching)<br>Spatial Cognition (spatial vision, spatial memory and orientation)<br>Learning and Memory (learning in real-world contexts, perceptual learning and expertise, explicit/implicit learning)<br>The Cognitive Bases of Emotion and Emotional Experience (emotion elicitation, facial expression of emotion, vocal expression of emotion)