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Cognitive psychology is the study of human information processing – perception, attention, memory, processes of reasoning and decision making – that in a neuropsychological perspective is connected to modern brain research. The research group consists of 8 full-time staff and 7 PhD students and postdocs, and runs several large scale projects within basic, clinical, and applied cognitive neuroscience. The center has excellent laboratory facilities allowing investigations with many of the techniques of cognitive neuroscience. Studies of functional and structural brain imaging of cognitive functions using MR/fMRI technology are performed in close collaboration with national and international scientific communities, and analysed in the Center; we have EEG and ERP labs, a clinical neuropsychology lab, as well as cognitive labs for traditional experimental techniques and eye movements. There is a broad spectrum of research topics within the Center: from genetics and cognition, to the relationship between lifespan changes in cortical thickness and cognitive function, to emotion and cognition, and eyewitness psychology. The common core is that the research sheds light on cognitive function within a neuroscientific perspective, and works towards a more neurologically-informed cognitive psychology. The members of the research group have received several awards for their research and their publications. In 2004, the group was judged “excellent” by Norwegian Research Council’s international evaluation panel. The center is located in Harald Schjelderups hus within the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo. |
