Johns Hopkins UniversityEST. 1876
America’s First Research University
The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences has been investigating the most fundamental questions of behavior, mind, and brain since 1883, when the first psychological laboratory in America was founded at Johns Hopkins University.
Our PhD program emphasizes training and experience in the research methods essential to the development of new knowledge.
Each faculty member has a state-of-the-art laboratory for research.
The undergraduate program provides students with a sound background in psychological and brain sciences.
Their recent eLife paper on inattentional blindness was also featured in in the most recent Johns Hopkins magazine!
Their new paper in the Journal of Neuroscience examines the brains of Hopkins novice computer programmers before and after taking a semester-long course in Python. You can check out their […]
Dr. Moss just received an award from the Simons Foundation to collaborate with 20 other PIs on an ecological neuroscience project about sensorimotor cognition across different species! You can read […]