UIC的认知心理学博士课程促进了人类认知的基础研究和应用研究，并为学生从事研究和教学职业做好了准备。在UIC，认知学院的研究计划通过探索复杂的认知过程的主题而链接起来，其中包括学习，记忆，语言，文本和话语过程，问题解决，概念变化和元认知的研究。在过去的10年中，研究工作已在顶级期刊（例如《实验心理学杂志：学习，记忆与认知》，《记忆与认知》，认知科学，《学习与指导》，《学习与个人差异》，《期刊》）上获得100余篇同行评审的出版物。教育心理学，话语过程和记忆与语言杂志，至少在美国和美国社会研究学会，美国心理学
The PhD program in Cognitive Psychology at UIC promotes basic and applied research on human cognition and prepares students for careers in research and teaching. At UIC, Cognitive Faculty research programs are linked through the theme of exploring complex cognitive processing, which includes the study of learning, memory, language, text and discourse processes, problem solving, conceptual change, and metacognition. Over the past 10 years, research efforts have resulted in over 100 peer-reviewed publications in top journals like Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Memory & Cognition, Cognitive Science, Learning & Instruction, Learning & Individual Differences, Journal of Educational Psychology, Discourse Processes, and Journal of Memory & Language, and at least twice that number of presentations at the meetings of national and international societies, including American Educational Research Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Cognitive Science Society, the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, the Psychonomic Society, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and the Society for Text and Discourse. The excellence of the faculty is recognized through honors such as membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Education, a Humboldt Fellowship (Germany) and an Erskine Fellowship (New Zealand). The division has a long-standing record of funding from foundations and federal agencies including the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Institute for Education Sciences.