The Brain and Cognition group focuses on understanding human cognition and adaptive behaviour in both health and disease. It studies two major and interrelated themes:

• development of advanced theories and cognitive models to improve the quality of inferences focussing primarily on consciousness, decision making and memory
• understanding and influencing the causes and consequences of neurological compromise and neurodiversity. Central is the pursuit of theories and models that can accurately predict behaviour andbehavioural changes with a high degree of external validity. In this pursuit, the group covers a broad range of research topics, from the anatomy of the brain to the autonomy of individuals.