Psychology is a multi-purpose, valuable discipline, with relevance for those considering careers in law, medicine, the health professions, education, business, and more. As the science concerned with the study of behavior, psychology includes diverse areas of study, including: biological bases of behavior, brain-behavior interactions, learning, memory, cognition, motivation, sensation and perception, the study of social interactions, persuasion, and attitudes, aging and development, personality, clinical, abnormal, and health psychology, and leisure and work experiences. Our mission is to educate our Psychological & Brain Sciences majors in the discipline's core aspects, questions, theories, and approaches. A major in our department can include more focused study in a specific area, and possibly the completion of one of our concentrations. The Psychological & Brain Sciences (P&BS) major provides students with the content of psychology, including breadth and depth. It also provides students with the tools needed to evaluate critically psychological information, independent of specific content. Our students learn how to gather data, conduct literature reviews, and write proficiently and scientifically. We strive to ensure that our students understand the importance and become critical evaluators of empirical psychological research.<br><br>This concentration allows students to acquire deeper knowledge of the relation between mind and brain. The courses for the concentration consider the neurobiological basis for psychological functions at a more general level, and then explore in greater depth specialized topics relating to how higher cognitive processes, such as memory, attention, perception and emotion, emerge from brain function.