The Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University offers a wide range of research programs and courses in psychology, neuroscience, and behaviour. It focuses on understanding brain function, behaviour, and cognition.
The Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University is internationally recognized for its research in psychology, neuroscience, and behaviour. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs in various areas of psychology, including clinical, cognitive, and social psychology, as well as neuroscience. The department aims to advance knowledge and provide practical applications through research and education in these fields. McMaster University's Department offers a spectrum of programs for students with varying interests and goals. Programs range from Applied Psychology in Human Behaviour, focusing on understanding and changing human behavior, to interdisciplinary studies integrating psychology, neuroscience, and animal behavior, and culminating in the Neuroscience program, designed for students interested in an interdisciplinary science foundation.
Welcome to Psychology at CMU. With nearly 30 award-winning faculty and almost 150 people in total, we are a vibrant community whose research continues our department's 100-year tradition of studying the deeper mechanisms and processes underlying human behavior and its social and neural bases. Innovation is in our DNA: our department has been at the center of helping create new scientific initiatives in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neural-nets, the role of behavior and medicine and, more recently, university-wide efforts in brain research, artificial intelligence and the science of education.
Psychological science is traditionally defined as the study of behavior; neuroscience as the study of the nervous system. As a Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences we are focused on understanding mind and behavior in terms of underlying psychological processes that have their genesis in neural activity in the brain.
An important overarching research interest in psychology at Heidelberg University is currently the analysis of (self-) regulation processes.