We seek to understand the neural mechanisms underlying behavior and cognition, studying these neural mechanisms unfold across the lifespan and how they support normal and impaired cognition and behavior using a variety of neuroscience approaches in humans and other animals. Members of this group investigate the neural mechanisms underlying such processes as learning, memory, emotion, attention, perception, sleep, development, stress, addiction, thirst, and hunger.

In addition to the Cognitive Control Group in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, behavioral and cognitive neuroscience is represented in other departments, such as psychiatry, neurology, and molecular physiology and biophysics. 

There is a long history of collaboration between neuroscience researchers in psychology and neurology, starting with the joint appointment of Professor Arthur Benton in psychology and neurology and the founding of the Benton Neuropsychological Laboratory (located in neurology). There are also strong ties between psychology and the departments of psychiatry, neurosurgery, otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, biology, and communication sciences and disorders.