Interdisciplinary research in the fields of cognition, behavior and the brain
Through interdisciplinary collaboration, we seek to uncover the mechanisms of the human mind.
Research Center on Cognitive Sciences
The CICC [Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Cognitivas (CICC) ] was created to enhance and promote collaborative research work in cognitive sciences, under the assumption that developing projects involving the work of specialists from different domains will produce more comprehensive results and explanations to problems than those that could be generated by specialists within a single knowledge domain.
The Programa de Investigación Asociativa (PIA) en Ciencias Cognitivas [Associative Research Program in Cognitive Sciences] is currently the CICC’s main ongoing research project. The PIA was born in 2018 as a program aimed to develop basic and translational research in social, clinical and experimental contexts, studying the processes at the basis of social adjustment and the development of psychopathologies. With this, it seeks to promote both mental health and adaptation processes in educational and work contexts.
The research developed by this program will have a positive impact on two of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) defined by the United Nations Organization (UN): Improve maternal health, well-being and development of the infant and its environment; and improve the education and literacy of men and women between 15 and 24 years. The PIA in Cognitive Sciences integrates models and strategies from areas such as psychology, cognitive and behavioral neurosciences, computer engineering, philosophy, and economics, and education.
