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The Cognition and Perception Study Section reviews applications investigating normal and disordered cognition and perception and their development across the lifespan [infancy through old age], involving behavioral, neuroimaging, psychophysiological, neuropsychological, and mathematical/computational modeling approaches. Specific areas covered include:

• Perception: higher order perceptual mechanisms for all sensory modalities; object and scene recognition; processing of spatial and temporal relations; complex auditory events; intermodal perception
• Attention: attentional control and allocation; capacity and resource limitations; automatization
• Executive Function: planning and monitoring of complex behaviors; coordination of cognitive operations; consciousness
• Learning, Memory, and Knowledge: Encoding, consolidation, and retrieval processes; short-term, working, and long-term memory; episodic/semantic, declarative/procedural, explicit/implicit and other types of memory and their interactions; categorization; expert knowledge; skill learning; rule induction; roles of instruction and practice
• 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; creativity
• Differences in cognitive abilities: individual differences, developmental/age-related changes in knowledge, strategies and processing speed; plasticity; effects of training and education

Study sections with most closely related areas of similar science listed in rank order are:

Language and Communication [LCOM]
Cognitive Neuroscience [COG]
Central Visual Processing [CVP]
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory [LAM]
Aging Systems and Geriatrics [ASG]
Child Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities [CPDD]
Social Psychology and Interpersonal Processes [SPIP]