Applied Cognitive Psychology Resources

The Applied Cognitive Psychology Program utilizes resources from The Claremont Colleges Consortium.  On a regular basis, graduate students and cognitive psychology faculty from The Claremont Colleges gather for brown bag lunch talks about topics of current interest in cognitive psychology.

Grants, contract research, and field work opportunities for applied cognitive psychologists are available.  One focus of research at CGU is memory and the aging process.  The affiliated Pomona College Project on Memory and Aging has received support from the National Institute of Health for 19 years and offers our graduate students a number of opportunities to study cognitive aging.  Drawing on the population of older adults in Claremont, this project investigates changes in attention, memory, and language associated with normal aging.

See below for a list of faculty members who teach and supervise graduate research in the cognitive psychology program.

Faculty in Applied Cognitive Psychology

Core Faculty Members

 Dr. Kathy Pezdek  Dr. Dale Berger

Kathy Pezdek

Dale Berger

Other Graduate Faculty in Cognitive Psychology


William P. Banks

Pomona College

Deborah Burke

Pomona College

Diane Halpern
Claremont McKenna College

Gabriel Cook
Claremont McKenna College

Patricia Smiley

Pomona College

Leah L. Light
Pitzer College

Catherine Reed
Claremont McKenna College

Nicole Y. Weekes

Pomona College

Michael Spezio
Scripps College

Robert Thornton
Pomona College

Daniel Krauss

Claremont McKenna College

Stacey Wood
Scripps College

Paul Zak
Claremont Graduate University


Tomoe Kanaya

Claremont McKenna College


Eric Hurley

Pomona College

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