Researchers at Brown study the “outputs” of brain activity—cognition, emotion, memory, attention, and decision making. Their work bridges basic science and clinical psychiatry across Brown’s affiliated hospitals. Themes include computational cognition, frontal lobe function, and cognitive control, with applications in autism, ADHD, and frontostriatal disorders.

Research in computation in brain and mind brings together theorists and experimentalists in an effort to understand fundamental brain and cognitive processes.

Faculty are unravelling the mysteries of neural circuits, using genetic and electrophysiological approaches to explore brain development and function in health and disease.

Brown is a global leader in neurotechnology and neuroengineering research with a history of pioneering work in brain-machine interface technology.

Projects in cellular and molecular neurobiology range from basic science investigations of development, function, and maintenance of synapses to translational research focused on neurodegenerative disease and aging.

Faculty confront a range of complex questions about sensory perception and behavior. A number of labs at Brown specialize in understanding how animals and humans use sensory percepts to make sense of the world. This research not only spans various sensory modalities (vision, olfaction, taste, etc.) but also tackles problems at various levels of analysis.