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Research Centres

The School of Psychology & Neuroscience is home to six research centres based on our different experimental approaches. To learn more about our research, you may also be interested in reviewing our Research Themes and individual Research Groups.

Research Themes

Research Groups

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Cognition, Language and Metascience

The Centre for Cognition, Language and Metascience aims to develop and promote evidence-based methods and structures for robust and reproducible research

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Cognitive Neuroimaging

The Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi) brings together a multidisciplinary group of neuroscientists whose mission is to understand how the human brain gives rise to complex cognitive functions, in health and disease

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Neuroscience

The Centre for Neuroscience (CfN) bridges neuroscience to advanced clinical neuroscience and experimental psychology

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Neuro- technology

The Centre for Neurotechnology is committed to developing intelligent devices that communicate with the nervous system and stimulate it in ways to restore or improve its function

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Pedagogy and Education Research Unit

The Pedagogy and Education Research Unit (PERU) in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow brings together researchers interested in Higher Education scholarship and pedagogy

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Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

The Centre for Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (CSCAN) examines fundamental questions in social perception, cognition, and interaction, and how to harness these for meaningful applications in social context

Translational Imaging

The Translational Imaging research spans engineering, physics, preclinical and clinical research. It focuses on the development, validation and translation of novel imaging hardware, acquisition methods and imaging biomarkers probing biological mechanisms and pathogenesis

Research Themes