Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology - Cognitive and Behavioural Neurosciences

Wilfrid Laurier University

Neuroscience is one of the most exciting and rapidly advancing fields in all of the life sciences. At Laurier, we take a broadly integrative perspective, examining the interaction between behaviour, cognition and the nervous system across a diverse set of species from fish to humans, ranging in scale from populations, to individuals, to cells, on timescales ranging from milliseconds to generations.Our research interests are interconnected, focusing on the mechanisms underlying: Visual and auditory perception Motor control, attention and memory Language Medical (mental) disorders, including addiction, eating disorders, and age-related memory disorders The neurobiology of learning and memory, the evolution of learning, social learning, comparative cognition, the learning-motivation interface, and neural plasticity and Social organization and collective behaviour.