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PNP offers opportunities for undergraduate research in several ways:

• The PNP Honors Program (PNP 499), in which students write a thesis under the supervision of two PNP faculty members, at least one of whom is a Core PNP faculty member. (Core PNP faculty are in Philosophy and PNP. They are listed here). The aim of the program is to enable students to look at one aspect of cognition—their chosen topic—both empirically and philosophically. For example, a student could examine aspects of perception by investigating visual attention in a psychology lab while studying the philosophy of perception.
  While it would be most natural to choose a PNP-affiliated faculty member (listed here) as the non-core mentor for an honors project, non-PNP-affiliated faculty can also serve.
• Many PNP students also participate in the Mind, Brain, and Behavior program. This is a two-year sequence open to a limited number of incoming students. After completing a year-long course integrating material from psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, students conduct a large research project in the sophomore year.
• Students can count 3 credits of independent study in a PNP-affiliated discipline (i.e. Psychology 500, Biology 500, etc.) towards their PNP requirements. Many students choose this option, and they generally find that their research and their PNP coursework illuminate each other.
• The department of psychology offers extensive research assistantships with its faculty members; please follow the link to open a .pdf document with 2006-2007 openings.
• For more information, interested students should visit the main research page on this website.