Cognitive psychologists develop a systematic understanding of cognitive processes. These include perception, human learning, attention, categorization, problem solving, decision–making, information processing and retrieval, short and long-term memory and forgetting, sensory encoding, motor control, psycholinguistics, and reading.

• Information processing in decision making
• Categorization and conceptual representation
• Language acquisition and sentence processing
• Speech perception
• Reading
• Analysis of choice behavior
• Visual perception
• Stages of sensory information processing
• The focus of attention
• Forgetting in short and long-term memory
• The nature of retrieval from memory
• The mechanisms of visual and auditory imagery
• The control of the memorial system
• Shared cognitive processing

Adaptive Behavior and Cognition Lab - Peter Todd