Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience - Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

The Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) program marshals the talents of over 30 faculty in Psychological Sciences at Vanderbilt to examine fundamental problems in perception, attention, memory, thinking, and problem solving. Specialties within these broad areas of research include:

View list of Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience faculty here

Visual Perception (binocular vision, motion perception, object recognition, perception of geometric structure, perceptual learning and expertise, scene perception, change detection, perceptual development)
Attention and Performance (focused attention, dual-task performance, executive control, task switching, and automatization)
Concepts and Categories (categorization, conceptual structure, knowledge representation)
Thinking and Reasoning (causal reasoning, analogical problem solving, decision making, numerical reasoning, thinking with diagrams, metacognition)
Perception and Action (perceptual-motor coordination, development of reaching)
Spatial Cognition (spatial vision, spatial memory and orientation)
Learning and Memory (learning in real-world contexts, perceptual learning and expertise, explicit/implicit learning)
The Cognitive Bases of Emotion and Emotional Experience (emotion elicitation, facial expression of emotion, vocal expression of emotion)

Qualified applicants with bachelor's or comparable non-U.S. degrees are eligible for admission to the Graduate School. Applications from international students with three- year bachelor's degrees will also be considered.
Applicants must upload an unofficial copy of transcripts from prior undergraduate and graduate work as part of their online application for admission. Official transcripts are required only after an offer of admission is made and accepted.
The minimum acceptable score on the TOEFL PBT (paper- based test) is 570, and for the TOEFL iBT (internet- based test), 88. Many programs, however, require a considerably higher level of proficiency.
IELTS, the minimum acceptable score will vary by program. In many cases, a score of at least 7.0 is desirable.