Postgraduate in Psychology: Cognition and Behavior

In 2017, a group of academics from the Postgraduate Program in Psychology of the Department of Psychology of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), then the only existing program, created the Postgraduate Program in Psychology: Cognition and Behavior (PPGCOGCOM / UFMG). Considering the different theoretical and methodological perspectives of Psychology and related areas, this new program is a specialized and dedicated teaching and research space focused on the “investigation of cognitive and behavioral processes”.

Among the objects of study are the basic processes such as attention and memory and the more complex processes such as symbolic behavior and language, which are studied both in healthy individuals and in individuals with specific psychological and cognitive disorders. In this context, PPGCOGCOM / UFMG develops theoretical and applied research, the latter being in the areas of evaluation (e.g. the cognitive and behavioral patterns that characterize the personality and the individual differences in intelligence) and intervention (e.g. in learning and behavioral problems).

Among the objects of study are the basic processes such as attention and memory and the more complex processes such as symbolic behavior and language, which are studied both in healthy individuals and in individuals with specific psychological and cognitive disorders. In this context, PPGCOGCOM / UFMG develops theoretical and applied research, the latter being in the areas of evaluation (e.g. the cognitive and behavioral patterns that characterize the personality and the individual differences in intelligence) and intervention (e.g. in learning and behavioral problems).

The Postgraduate Program in Psychology: Cognition and Behavior (PPGCOGCOM / UFMG) is taught by academics from the Psychology Department of UFMG, located at the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences (FAFICH / UFMG). It offers Master and Doctoral courses in two lines of research: Measurement and Psychological Intervention and Neuropsychology of Development.

PPGCOGCOM / UFMG aims to train students in Psychology, with interface with the areas of health and humanities, for the exercise of teaching and research activities.

The Master’s Degree (minimum of 12 and a maximum of 24 months), aims to promote the deepening of academic knowledge, as well as the development of skills for higher teaching activities and research and the Doctorate (minimum of 24 and the maximum 48 months), the development of the ability to perform original and independent research.

PPGCOGCOM / UFMG encourages excellence in research through the establishment of national and international partnerships by their academic teachers and laboratories.

International partnerships

• Profa. Annemarie Fritz-Stratmann, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Alemanha)
• Profa. Carolyn B. Mervys, University of Loisville (EUA)
• Profa. Carla Barroso da Costa, Universitédu Québec à Montréal (Canadá)
• Profa. Catharine H. Echols, University of Texas at Austin (EUA)
• Dyslexia International (Belgium)
• Prof. Edward Chang, University of Michigan (EUA)
• Prof. Guilherme Wood, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Áustria)
• Profa. Helga Krinzinge, Rheinische-Westphalische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Alemanha)
• Prof. Hudson Fernandes Golino, Universityof Virginia (EUA)
• Profa. Irene Mammarella, Università degli Studi di Padova (Italia)
• Profa. Karin Landerl, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Áustria)
• Prof. Klaus Willmes, Rheinische-Westphalische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Alemanha)
• Prof. Korbinian Moeller, Leibnizt-Institut für Wissensmedien (Alemanha)
• Prof. Leandro S. Almeida, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
• Prof. Pekka Räsänen, University of Jyväskylä (Finlândia)
• Prof. Ricardo Rosas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile