CMB researchers show how attention re-routes information through the brain
Welcome
The Center for Mind and Brain is a UC Davis research initiative bringing together world-class scientists with the latest technology to learn how the human mind works and to teach the techniques and tools to the next generation of researchers. We are part of a rich set of interconnected centers and institutes at UC Davis focusing on Mind and Brain.
Our core research areas include:
• attention and visual cognition
• audio-visual integration
• music
• language and neurolinguistics
• cognitive and neurocognitive development
• disorders of mind and brain
• short-term and long-term memory
Some of our current research applications include:
• effects of meditation on the mind and brain
• interplay between music and memory
• how children with autism and Fragile X process information
• development of morality in children
• neurobiology of sign languages
• memory in infancy, childhood, adulthood, and old age
• effects of aging and Alzheimer's Disease on the brain
The tools we use include:
• functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
• EEG and event related potentials (ERPs)
• transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
• eye tracking
• behavioral testing
We are the home of internationally recognized research training programs, including the NIMH Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience and the UC-Davis ERP Boot Camp.