Psychology - Carnegie Mellon University

Welcome to Psychology at CMU. With nearly 30 award-winning faculty and almost 150 people in total, we are a vibrant community whose research continues our Department's 100 year tradition of studying the deeper mechanisms and processes underlying human behavior and its neural bases. Innovation is in our DNA: our department has been at the center of helping create new scientific initiatives in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neural-nets, and, more recently, university-wide efforts in brain research and the science of education. We are mindful that research should have real-world impact. We have helped to create several successful companies, to build science-based cognitive tutors, to develop the emerging field of health neuroscience, and to better understand how distraction in the classroom affects learning.