Undergraduate students in the Department of Psychology may concentrate on the study of cognitive science, while graduate students may opt to pursue cognitive psychology or behavioral neuroscience.

The Department of Psychology features a program in brain and cognitive science, in the areas of behavioral neuroscience, human factors/ergonomics, and perception and cognition.

The emphases of the Center for Cognitive Science are image understanding, music cognition, and human language processing. It offers undergraduate and graduate minors.

At the graduate level, the Department of Psychology includes a subprogram in cognitive and experimental psychology, with emphasis on three areas: cognition, memory, and learning, perception, and human performance.