International Research and Education Opportunities for US Graduate Students in the Cognitive Sciences

该提案旨在支持美国研究生参加2012年在日本札幌举行的认知科学学会年会，沿着与日本实验室进行研究交流和合作。33年来，认知科学学会一直是认知科学研究的首要国际组织。该学会汇集了来自许多领域的研究人员，他们有一个共同的目标：理解认知的本质，因为它出现在生物有机体中，并在人类中找到其顶峰，以及它在人工系统中模拟。一般来说，会议提供了一个论坛，为国家的最先进的研究在认知科学的第一次交流，侧重于广泛的学科和跨学科的主题，从心理学，计算机科学，神经科学，语言学和人类学的代表，每年的年会包括丰富的选择教程和研讨会提供给学生。研讨会和教程可以在任何学科有所帮助，但它们在认知科学中特别需要，因为学生很少来自具有跨领域专业知识的课程。在过去的十年里，日本在认知科学的许多领域都取得了蓬勃发展。因此，促进国际跨学科研究交流与合作的时机已经成熟。

This proposal seeks to support US graduate student participation in the 2012 annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Sapporo Japan, along with research interchanges and collaborations with Japanese labs immediately subsequent to the conference.For 33 years, the Cognitive Science Society has been the premiere international organization for research in Cognitive Science. The Society brings together researchers from many fields that hold a common goal: understanding the nature of cognition as it appears in biological organisms and finds its pinnacle in humans, and as it is simulated in artificial systems. In general, the meeting provides a forum for the first communication of state-of-the-art research in cognitive science, focusing on a broad range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary topics, with representation from psychology, computer science, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology.Each year, the annual meeting includes a rich selection of tutorials and workshops available to students. Workshops and tutorials can be helpful in any academic discipline, but they are especially needed in cognitive science because it is very rare that students come from programs with expertise spanning the breadth of the field. Research in many areas of cognitive science has flourished over the past decade in Japan. The time is therefore ripe for fostering international, interdisciplinary research interchanges and collaborations.