The Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Caltech focuses on understanding human behavior, cognition, and culture through interdisciplinary research in psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
Caltech's Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences offers programs in psychology, social science, and cognitive neuroscience, promoting cutting-edge research to understand human behavior and cognition. The Psychology Department at Caltech is home to some of the world's leading researchers in a wide range of fields. The department's research focus areas include cognitive psychology, social psychology, neuroscience, and computational and theoretical neuroscience.
The Department of Psychology at Kyoto University conducts scientific experiments and observations to elucidate the functions of the mind and brain mechanisms. It focuses on Perception, Comparative Cognition, and Developmental Science.
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.
It has been possible to major in psychology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at RWTH Aachen University since 1960.