Perception and Cognition Lab

Welcome to the Perception and Cognition Lab, part of the Department of Psychological Sciences at The University of Missouri.

In brief, we have two major lines of study: The first is substantive: we study how people process and combine new perceptual information with pre-existing knowledge such that they can reach these quick, effortless decisions about the world around them. This research is in the areas of memory, attention, perception, categorization, and letter recognition. The second is methodological: we develop nonlinear hierarchical models for improved estimation and inference, and ultimately better theory development, across a number of domains. Currently, we are starting our first fMRI neuroimaging study in cognitive control of irrelevant information

Research in the Perception and Cognition Lab is supported by grants from The National Institutes of Health, The National Science Foundation, and The University of Missouri.

Pictured from left to right: Richard Morey, Jeff Rouder, Kathleen Wenzlick, Patrick Lockwood, Jory Province, Michael Pratte, Robert Paterson, and Chuning Feng (May, 2008).