Our research

BUCNI provides state-of-the-art magnetic imaging facilities for Birkbeck and UCL staff, and promotes inter-institutional collaboration and innovation.

Our research focuses on how cognitive and mental health interventions can be used to promote resilience and mental well-being in breast cancer patients.

CBCD investigates relations between post-natal brain development and changes in perceptual, cognitive and linguistic abilities from birth through childhood and late adulthood.

The Centre unites research spanning the breadth of modelling techniques and frameworks employed in the study of human behaviour.

Our research combines the expertise of researchers in child development, neuroscience and education to improve educational practice throughout life.

Our centre’s research focuses on the significant issues that people face in their lives, using a range of methodologies.

We investigate how we control our actions and imitate and comprehend the action of others, both in typical development and in individuals with autism spectrum conditions.

We investigate cognition and emotion interactions.

The ALPHAlab researches the relationship between perceptual and attentional processes and spoken language comprehension throughout the lifespan.

Research at the Babylab helps us to better understand how babies learn and develop, particularly during the first two years of life.

How well do we know our own body? The BodyLab investigates the psychological and neural mechanisms by which we form representations of our body, and how these representations affect all aspects of our mental lives.

We study perception, attention, and sensorimotor processes, using primarily behavioural and event-related brain potential (ERP) measures.

The BRIDGE Lab is a molecular biology facility for genomic research using DNA and RNA samples.

Our research focuses on development of computational models of cognitive processes and evaluating them against behavioural and/or neural data.

We explore how children's cognitive abilities increase as they grow older, how levels of intelligence can vary in individuals of the same age and how cognitive abilities can be altered in developmental disorders.

The DMC Lab researches human memory and how it works with other cognitive functions, focusing particularly on search and storage of information for later use and the ability to adjust to deal with change.

Our research aims to identify the genetic and environmental causes that make people different, particularly in relation to developmental mental health conditions.

Our research covers many topics in health and illness psychology.

We employ interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to explore a wide range of topics in lived experience.

Resources, news of events, regional and international groups and an online discussion group for IPA researchers.

MERLiN houses a suite of research laboratories, and facilities include acoustic booths for electrophysiological, optical and psychophysiological research.

ReAL is concerned with how argumentation and reasoning work in real life beyond the laboratory, such as in climate change, the law, health promotion and the development of scientific reasoning.

Find out more about undertaking an MPhil/PhD in our department.

As a student you can volunteer to help with the department's research by taking part in experiments run by our lab groups.

Our department excels in research that has a high impact on policy and practice in the real world.

Our staff publish widely in respected journals across the discipline.

Find out more about the staff in our department.

Our Department of Psychological Sciences was rated 5th in the UK in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).

Read the latest on department research with news of staff and student achievements.

This forum provides a regular focus for discussing research in the Psychology of Reasoning in the UK and globally. Meetings support productive discussion with more time for speakers to present their ideas.

All members of the department - both staff and students - are expected to observe the code of conduct and ethical principles laid down by the British Psychological Society.

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