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Research in the Department

The Department was given the highest possible score, 5*, in the last Research Assessment Exercise conducted by the Higher Education Funding Council for England in 2001. The research staff include university teaching officers (lecturers, readers, and professors), postdoctoral research associates, research assistants, laboratory staff, and graduate students. They conduct psychological and neuroscientific research into topics including sensory perception, attention, memory, language, cognitive development, psychopathology, computational models of psychological processes, associative learning, animal cognition and behaviour, and drug addiction.

For details of the research interests of individual members of the academic staff, see Academic Staff page. Some of the academic staff are part of research groups. They are as follows:

Research groups/labs
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Autism Research Centre
www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/arc
Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute
www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/bcni
Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience
www.cam-can.com
Centre for Neuroscience in Education
www.cne.psychol.cam.ac.uk
Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain
www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/csl
Comparative Cognition Lab
www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/ccl
Cognitive Systems Neuroscience Laboratory
www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/csnlab
Developing Cognition Lab
www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/dcl
Hearing Lab
www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/hearing
Laboratory for Research into Autism www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/lara
Language Lab   www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/langlab
Memory Lab   www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/memlab
Visual Cognition Lab
www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/viscog
Vision Lab
www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/vision