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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.

what we dowho we arelearnparticipateOur 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 brain
    •    interplay between music and memory
    •    how children with autism and Fragile X process information
    •    development of morality in children
    •    neurobiology of sign languages
    •    what optical illusions say about vision
    •    effects of aging on the brain, including Alzheimer's

The tools we use include:

    •    functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
    •    event related potentials (ERP) from EEG
    •    transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
    •    eye tracking
    •    behavioral testing
    •    optical tracking