The Ohio State University Cognitive Psychology Program focuses on research into basic cognitive processes in human memory, perception, language, music, motor control, decision making, higher-level processes, and the neurophysiological underpinnings of these processes. Research is also being conducted on aspects of these processes that involve aging, child development, and clinical and neurological deficits. There is a great deal of collaboration between members of the cognitive program and members of other programs in the department (especially with the Quantitative area) and other departments, including the medical school and hospital. Over half the members of our program actively pursue quantitative modeling approaches to these topics. There is a general agreement that it is difficult to understand human cognition without theories that integrate phenomena within a framework that allows quantitative tests of the theories. Faculty web pages (to the right) illustrate the specific research questions currently being addressed. The laboratories in the Cognitive program have computational resources and systems to conduct behavioral experiments and to perform computational modeling. Individual laboratories have systems that allow data analyses and experiments to be conducted with EEG, eye movements, heart rate variability, and speech perception and production. The department also hosts a center for fMRI brain imaging (described below).