The faculty in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences are active both as researchers and
as teachers. These roles are inseparably linked: we have a strong obligation to advance knowledge in
the Brain & Cognitive Sciences, to impart that knowledge to students and to train them in the
methods and formalisms we use. Our investment in students is not altruistic: teaching helps us
enlarge our academic horizons, and clarify our thinking, and through projects students undertake with
us it binds us to the next generation of thinkers who will shape our own and other fields.
The focus of the faculty's work is behavior and its dependence on neural and cognitive
mechanisms. The multi-disciplinary nature of the domain is reflected in our backgrounds. Among the
eighteen faculty with primary appointments in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, we
find doctoral degrees in Biology, Computer and Information Science, Experimental Psychology, and
Physiology-Neurobiology. The Department extends its range and depth in other disciplines that inform
the Brain & Cognitive Sciences by drawing into it associated faculty whose primary appointments are
in other academic departments and centers.
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