[CP Roster]

The Cognition and Perception [CP] Study Section reviews applications investigating cognition and perception and their development across the entire lifespan [infancy through old age], primarily in humans. Normal and disordered forms of cognition and perception are considered. Studies of non-human animals are appropriate when these are directly relevant to understanding processes in humans. Also included are the influences of affect, stress, and substance use and of physical, social and cultural contexts, provided that the emphasis is on the nature of cognitive and perceptual processes. Methods include [but are not limited to] psychological experiments, naturalistic observation, mathematical and computational modeling, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, and psychophysiological measurement.

Specific areas covered by CP:

• Perceptual mechanisms for all sensory modalities; object recognition; processing of spatial and temporal relations; scene recognition; eye-movement control; intermodal perception; perception of music and other complex auditory events
• Nature, acquisition, and use of knowledge about perceptual and physical properties of objects, scenes, and events; physical reasoning; processing of numerical and timing information
• Planning and monitoring of actions; navigation; nature and acquisition of motor skills; perceptual-motor integration; human-technology interaction
• Attentional control and allocation; capacity and resource limitations; automatization
• Encoding, consolidation, and retrieval processes; short-term, working, and long-term memory; semantic, episodic, declarative, procedural and other types of memory and their interactions; organization of information in memory
• Nature and organization of conceptual, semantic, propositional, and schematic knowledge; categorization; understanding of causality; expert knowledge; folk/naive knowledge of biology, psychology, and other domains
• Acquisition of knowledge and skills; implicit and explicit learning; rule induction; roles of instruction and practice; exploratory behavior
• Reasoning, decision-making, and problem-solving. Use of rules, models, strategies, and heuristics; deductive and inductive reasoning; mathematical and statistical reasoning; analogical reasoning; choice behavior
• Executive function: Planning and monitoring of complex behaviors; coordination of cognitive operations; consciousness
• Principles and mechanisms of development: Genetic, learning, and dynamic approaches; age-related changes in knowledge, strategies, and processing speed; plasticity; effects of training and education
• Intelligence and aptitudes: Individual differences in cognitive abilities; testing and assessment; cognitive style; creativity
• Cognitive/perceptual mechanisms underlying behavioral and mental disorders [e.g., addiction, amnesia, autism, dementia, mental retardation, mood disorders, perceptual deficits, schizophrenia, substance abuse], including cognitive/perceptual vulnerabilities for disorder.

CP has the following shared interests within the BBBP IRG:

• Studies of animal cognition and perception may generally be assigned to BRLE, but work strongly connected to research on human cognition and perception may be assigned to CP. Similarly, studies of human cognition and perception that are strongly connected to research on animal cognition and perception [e.g., investigations of classical/operant conditioning or that take an ethological or evolutionary perspective] may be assigned to BRLE.
• Studies of the influence of affect and stress on cognitive and perceptual mechanisms may be assigned to CP. Studies of the influence of cognition and perception on affective and stress responses may be assigned to MESH.
• Studies that use linguistic stimuli to investigate general cognitive or perceptual processes may be assigned to CP. Studies investigating processes specifically related to language may be assigned to LCOM.
• Studies of cognitive/perceptual mechanisms involved in adult disorders may be assigned to CP. Studies that examine disorders of aging more broadly may be assigned to APDA. Studies of preventive and remedial interventions may be assigned to APDA.
• Studies of cognitive/perceptual mechanisms with implications for developmental disorders may be assigned to CP. Studies that examine developmental disorders more broadly may be assigned to CPDD. Studies of preventive and remedial interventions may be assigned to CPDD.
• Studies of higher-level motor planning or the relation of motor function to other aspects of cognition or perception may be assigned to CP. However, studies of higher-level planning related to language or speech sound production may be assigned to MFSR or LCOM.

CP has the following shared interests outside the BBBP IRG:

• With the Genes, Genomes and Genetics [GGG] IRG:  Applications focusing on genetic mechanisms underlying cognition and perception that have a primary focus on behavioral endpoints may be assigned to CP.  Studies of genetic mechanisms in cognition and perception in which the emphasis is not behavioral may be assigned to the GGG IRG.
  
  
• With the Biology of Development and Aging [BDA] IRG:  Applications on an aging population regarding cognitive or perceptual impairments that have a primary focus on behavioral endpoints may be assigned to CP.  Applications with a primary focus on physiologic or biological antecedents and endpoints when an aging population is specifically studied may be assigned to the BDA IRG.
  
  
• With the Risk, Prevention and Health Behavior [RPHB] IRG: The RPHB IRG may review studies of interventions that focus on the cognitive aspects of personality and social interaction.
  
  
• With the Integrative, Functional and Cognitive Neuroscience [IFCN] IRG:  Applications focusing on neural mechanisms underlying cognition and perception that have a primary focus on behavioral endpoints may be assigned to CP.  Studies regarding the basic function for visual sensation and early stages of visual perception, the basic function of the auditory system, the neural bases of memory and learning, or the neural bases of cognition and perception in which the primary focus is not behavior but on the physiological processes may be assigned to the IFCN IRG.  
  
  
• With the Brain Disorders and Clinical Neuroscience [BDCN] IRG:  Applications focusing on neural mechanisms underlying cognition and perception that have a primary focus on behavioral endpoints may be assigned to CP.  Studies of the neural basis of abnormalities in cognition and perception in which the emphasis is not behavioral may be assigned to the BDCN IRG.