认知与情感神经科学研究兴趣小组由对理解人脑与认知和情感过程（包括感觉，知觉，注意力，记忆，语言，社会认知，情感，情绪调节，和健康。除了该RIG的正式课程外，学生还使用几种可用于研究人脑的技术参与研究，包括行为，神经内分泌和心理生理学方法，基于患者的研究，经颅磁刺激（TMS），事件相关电位（ERP）和功能磁共振成像（fMRI）。
The Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Research Interest Group is comprised of students and faculty who have interests in understanding the relationship between the human brain and cognitive and affective processes, including sensation, perception, attention, memory, language, social cognition, emotion, emotion regulation, and health. In addition to the formal coursework that is part of this RIG, students engage in research using several different techniques available for studying the human brain, including behavioral, neuroendocrine, and psychophysiological methods, patient-based studies, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), event-related potentials (ERP), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).