The Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience program incorporates very active research in which faculty, post-doctoral scientists, and students (undergraduate and graduate) practice a broad range of scientific techniques to address diverse questions about the brain and behavior. Students can learn to apply a variety of techniques ranging from biochemical assays to brain imaging. Although many of the techniques used are similar to those used in neuroscience departments that focus on cells or systems, the goal of the research program is to understand cells and systems as they relate to behavior. Overall, students explore the brain's ability to process information by studying the underlying processes and structures. Using a multidisciplinary approach, research projects within the program use state-of-the-art methodologies to examine the neurological basis of attention, decision-making, development and aging, emotion, feeding and motivated behavior, language processing, motor function, neuroplasticity and memory, psychopathology, sensory processing, etc.