In addition to being a member of one area, graduate students may choose to join one or both of our two interdisciplinary programs, which bring together researchers from different areas, within the department as well as from other departments, with shared interests. Here are our programs.
Interdisciplinary Neuroscience
Students in the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience program have the opportunity to do research with Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience faculty in the Psychology Department or Neurobiology faculty in the Biology Department. Students interested in the interdisciplinary neuroscience track apply to the Ph.D. program in either the Psychology or Biology Department, depending upon whether the student's primary interests align more closely with those of a faculty member in Psychology or Biology. Once accepted into one of these programs, students may choose to follow the interdisciplinary neuroscience track.
This program is in the process of expanding to include Computer Science, Physics, and Chemistry.
Affective Science
Open to graduate students in any of our areas, the Affective Science concentration studies emotion from perspectives that include neuroscience, developmental psychology, and cultural psychology.