The Cognition, Neuroscience, & Social (CNS) program conducts cutting edge research on human behavior that ranges from the level of cells to society, exploring the mechanisms of brain and behavior within social contexts. To explore many of the fascinating questions in these areas, faculty members and graduate students use a variety of experimental approaches such as behavioral studies, psychophysics, computational models, eye-tracking and motion tracking in virtual reality, electroencephalography (EEG), functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), as well as developmental, genetic, and animal research approaches. CNS graduate students receive interdisciplinary training across the three areas, and participate and lead ongoing and novel research projects. Generally, students are mentored by a faculty member with expertise in either cognition, neuroscience, or social psychology, although across discipline research and mentorship is available.<br>Behavioral Neuroscience: Research in the behavioral neurosciences emphasizes a research intensive, multi-disciplinary approach to the analysis of behavior from psychological and neurobiological perspectives. The program prepares students for research and teaching in behavioral neuroscience by providing broad training in modern and traditional methods and theories. Our current research focuses on comparative cognition and the neurobiology of emotion, stress, learning, and memory