The Department of Cognition, Brain and Behaviour covers the subjects of experimental psychology, cognitive and thymic psychological phenomena (perception, attention, learning, memory, thinking, language, emotions), the biological basis, the neuropsychological study and their dysfunctions, the psychology of the elderly, psychometrics (psychological assessment of cognitive and memory functions), the history and epistemology of psychology, the contribution of psychology to cognitive science, as well as the methods of psychological research and statistical analysis of research data.
Teaching Subject
The subject matter of the Department is experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, motivational psychology, research methods and statistical analysis of psychological research data, psychology of the elderly, biological psychology, psychology of thinking and reading, memory disorders, applications of critical thinking, psychopharmacology, history, philosophy and epistemology of psychology, symbolic logic and inductive reasoning, as well as topics related to the brain and emotions.
Research Subject
The main research directions of the Department of Cognition, Brain and Behaviour are in line with the research interests of the faculty members of the Department. Indicatively, the research activities of the Division focus on cognitive and metacognitive processes, self-regulated learning, metacognition, psychology of the elderly, psychopathology, etiopathogenesis of psychiatric and neurological disorders, neuropsychological assessment, theory of mind, social cognition, emotion perception, memory and language and their contribution to vocabulary acquisition, measurement of short-term memory and language skill development in children and adults, consciousness and mental representations, philosophy of psychology, the study of stressful stimuli as well as models of analysis of variance, linear regression, exploratory and confirmatory factorial methods of quantitative data, factorial correspondence analysis, cluster analysis, reliability & validity of psychometric instruments.
