As a result of René Weber's collaboration with UCSB’s SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind and UCSB’s Brain Imaging Center, the Communication Department has been named as one of the SAGE Center’s Participating Department.
UCSB's SAGE Center integrates a wide range of scholarly endeavors and technologies in the humanities, social sciences and the sciences. These include, for example, the metaphysics and the philosophy of the mind; methodologies in the social and behavioral sciences; and the relatively recently developed tools in the sciences such as functional neuro-imaging, genetic techniques, computational modeling and immersive virtual environment technology.
One mission of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind is to support the unique inter-disciplinary culture of UC Santa Barbara. For a variety of reasons, the academic and teaching climate is unusually free of barriers to collaboration, and the faculty and administration strongly encourage and support work across academic fields.