Cognitive Biology PhD Dissertation Topics

Cognitive or cognition means a process or action done mentally through the senses, thought, or experience and biology is the study of living organisms.  So the study of cognitive biology is the study of how the brain works in human beings.  This kind of study can advance the medical and psychology community but it can be hard to find a topic to do your dissertation on.  Here I will give you some ideas for topics that you can use in your cognitive biology dissertation.

Topics

• You could do a study on what different people’s perception of pain.
• The limitations of the brain processing information in different age groups.
• You can look at other studies of trilingualism and bilingualism effects infants’ interaction with languages of the brain.
• Study on how disorders such as social, anxiety, and emotional have a relationship to each other.
• A study on how the prefrontal lobe of the brain is responsible for us being human.
• Or how the prefrontal cortex can’t be fully understood until you study other areas of the brain.
• A study on the brains process of language and how multiple circuits are used in the cortex.
• How the cerebellum contributes to functions in the cortex.
• A study on the adults brains plasticity.
• You can argue on whether MRI is reliable to measure brain function or not.
• Do the right and left hemisphere of the brain has different functions.
• How short term memory can be a function of your long-term memory.
• How the hippocampus plays a role in memory.
• How the prefrontal cortex is related to short-term memory.
• How episodic and emotional memory are related.
• Are the forward areas of your brain the place that determines your attention?
• Do visual illusions aid in understanding the perceptual process in humans?
• How does the brain process time in different situations?

This is just some of the topics that you can do your dissertation on but I would think about it before you pick one.  You have spent years studying and you probably have an area that you want to know more on.  That is the subject I would use as my dissertation. Doing it on something that you want to study more because you are interested in the subject will make you dissertation sound more passionate and you research will go faster because you want to know more about the subject. So make sure you choose a topic that you can spend a long time researching that won’t make you bored after a month.