About the Faculty
The faculty in the Department of Brain and 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 and 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 and 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 and cognitive sciences by drawing into it associated faculty whose primary appointments are in other academic departments and centers.