Because at UB we have:

• A Results-Focused Doctoral Program
  • Learn by Doing
  • Guaranteed Exposure to Multiple Faculty and Labs
  • Balanced Coursework and Research Intensive Components
  • A Timeline for Results
  • A Good Placement History
    
    
• A Concentration of Psychology of Language Labs, working on:
  • Sentence Comprehension and Discourse (Mauner)
  • Speech and Language Perception (Luce, Mercado, Sawusch)
  • Word Recognition and Lexical Access (Luce, Sawusch)
    
    
• Expertise in:
  • Animal Cognition (Dent, Mercado, Smith)
  • Attention (Sawusch, Schmidt)
  • Auditory Perception (Dent, Luce, Mercado, Sawusch)
  • Categorization (Smith)
  • Cognitive Neuroscience (Dent, Mauner, Mercado, Schmidt)
  • Computational Modeling (Luce, Mercado, Sawusch, Schmidt)
  • Eye Movements and Cognition (Luce, Mauner, Schmidt)
  • Foundations of Cognitive Science (all faculty)
  • Learning (Mercado, Smith)
  • Memory (Mercado)
  • Metacognition (Smith)
  • Music Psychology (Smith)
  • Visual Perception (Schmidt)
  • Statistics (Luce)
    
    
• The Center for Cognitive Science - with a Ph.D. CogSci Track
  
  • Philosophy of Mind, Language and Science
  • Cognitive Science Theory
    
    
• Well-Equipped Labs with a supportive research infrastructure