VISUAL COGNITION

麻省理工学院大脑和认知科学系的认知神经科学中心建议建立一个视觉认知研究培训计划。该项目基于这样一种信念，即视觉是理解大脑的核心，现在只能通过整合许多传统学科(认知心理学、心理物理学、神经科学、神经心理学、计算机视觉)的知识和方法来研究视觉。这需要新一代的科学家，他们的培训涵盖了所有这些学科。麻省理工学院是一个特别适合这样一个项目的地点，因为它在视觉科学(研究和培训)方面取得了长期的成就，该系的组成不同寻常(实验心理学、计算和神经科学)，并且存在认知神经科学中心，该中心为跨学科培训计划提供经验和基础设施。该计划将为六名博士后和两名博士后提供认知科学和神经科学的核心课程，视觉、视觉认知和计算的基础课程，早期和广泛的研究经验，两名导师的指导(在三个不同的系中的两个不同领域)，口试和笔试，研究研讨会，本科教学中的经验和培训，对进展的密切监督，重复的口头报告，以及沉浸在对视觉认知感兴趣的学生和研究员的同行文化中。

The Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT proposes to create a research training program in Visual Cognition. The program is based on the beliefs that vision is central to the understanding of the mind, and that it now can only be studied in a way that integrates knowledge and methods from many traditional disciplines (cognitive psychology, psychophysics, neuroscience, neuropsychology, Computer vision). This requires new generations of scientists whose training encompasses all these disciplines. MIT is an especially suitable site for such a program because of its long history of accomplishments in vision science (both research and training), the unusual composition of the department (experimental psychology, computation, and neuroscience), and the existence of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, which provides the experience and infrastructure for an interdisciplinary training program. The program would provide six predoctoral and two postdoctoral students with core courses in cognitive science and neuroscience, foundational courses in vision, visual cognition, and computation, early and extensive research experience, the guidance of two advisors (in two different areas among the three constituting the department), oral and written qualifying exams, research seminars, experience and training in undergraduate teaching, close oversight of progress, repeated oral presentations, and immersion in a peer culture of students and fellows interested in visual cognition.