Miami’s BCS program adopts several general approaches to understanding how people perceive, understand, and act in their environment. First, faculty with interests in Perception and Cognition (Johnson, Olzak, Pantle, Thomas, Waller, Wolfe) focus on understanding general mechanisms that allow sensory, perceptual, and conceptual information to be processed. Second, faculty with interests in Neuroscience (Berry, Quinn, Simson) attempt to understand how mental processes are represented in the brain by physiological systems. Third, faculty with interests in Human Factors and Ergonomics (Mark, Smart) seek to understand how a person’s environment conveys information that enables one to accomplish his or her goals. Finally, several faculty members (Harris, Shore) study cognitive processes and structures by examining how they develop over the life span.