Cognition Institute

Welcome from the Director

It's my pleasure to welcome you to the University's Cognition Institute web pages. The Cognition Institute is an innovative interdisciplinary research environment which brings together researchers working on the understanding of human cognition, together with the application of findings to the development of innovations which improve people's lives, interactions with one another, and with the world.

The institute facilitates the collaborative interaction of more than 100 investigators whose expertise ranges across cognitive psychology, neural sciences, medicine, social sciences, human factors, biology, robotics, music, literature, film, and computational neuroscience.

Our work centres around six core research themes, of which you can see more below. Individual projects within the themes use state-of-the-art techniques often involving partners from academia, industry, and charitable organisations from around the world. The Cognition Institute is home to many large and prestigious projects, including the multi-million-euro Marie Curie funded CogNovo doctoral training programme, supported by the University to promote the development of future leaders in Cognitive Innovation research. The Cognition Institute is characterised by a friendly, inclusive and collaborative environment, in which researchers with a passion for exploring exciting and challenging questions are able to cooperate to achieve a greater understanding of human cognition and the implications of that understanding for people's lives.