The following are the research groups presently active in the CIMeC:
- Action Group (PI: Angelika Lingnau)
- Active Perception Group - MAP (PI: David Melcher)
- Animal Brain and Cognition Group - ABC (PI: Giorgio Vallortigara)
- Attention, Learning and Motivation Group (PI: Massimo Turatto)
- Attention Networks Group (PI: Daniel Baldauf)
- Attention, Perception and Aging Group (PI: Veronica Mazza)
- Cognition Across the Senses - CATS (PI: Francesco Pavani)
- Cognition Neurostimulation & Connectivity - CoN&Co (PI: Carlo Miniussi)
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Group (PI: Gabriele Miceli)
- Crossmodal Perception and Plasticity Group (PI: Olivier Collignon)
- Fairlab Group (PI: Scott Fairhall)
- FISH Group (PI: Valeria Anna Sovrano)
- Language and Vision Group - LaVi (P.I: Raffaella Bernardi)
- Learning and Decision Making Group (PI: Giorgio Coricelli)
- Linguistics in Cognition Group - LiCo (PI: Roberto Zamparelli)
- Molecular and Cellular Cognition - mc² Group (PI: Paola Sgadò)
- Motivated Cognition Group (PI: Clayton Hickey)
- Motor Control Group (PI : Luca Turella)
- MRI Methods Group (PI: Jorge Jovicich)
- Multisensory Research Group (PI: Massimiliano Zampini)
- Neurobiology of Comparative Cognition Group (PI: Uwe Mayer)
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Group - NDR (PI: Yuri Bozzi)
- Neuroethics Research Group (PI: Claudia Bonfiglioli)
- Neurophysics Group (PI: Albrecht Haase)
- Neuropsychological deficits in brain-damaged patients Group (PI: Costanza Papagno)
- Perception to Concepts Group - Per2Con (PI: Manuela Piazza)
- Reasoning and Decision Group - RAD (PI: Katya Tentori)
- Spatial Cognitive Development and Evolution