Interdisciplinary Training Program in Cognitive Science

描述(由申请人提供)： 这是一份为期五年的认知科学跨学科培训计划的申请。该计划将在明尼苏达大学最具实力的三个重点研究领域整合生物学和行为方法--感知和行动、学习和记忆以及情感和情感。这些主题是目前认知科学中最活跃的领域之一，都对人类健康有直接的应用。未来在这些领域的重大进展可能来自于拥有跨越多种方法的专业知识的研究人员，从而激励我们提供跨学科培训的计划。 该项目每年将培养12名博士后和3名博士后。专攻三个研究领域之一的受训者将接受至少四种主要方法中的两种--发展、行为、神经生物学和计算--的高级培训，并将有代表至少两种方法的联合顾问。培训计划的特点是确保跨学科的广度，包括多个实验室接触、每周多学科座谈会、期刊俱乐部和研讨会、参加会议的旅行、负责任的研究指导以及年度研究研讨会。最终，我们的目标是提供多个实验室和多个顾问的体验，使我们的受训人员能够在主题、工具和先进方法之间流畅地移动，以解决认知科学和人类心理健康方面的挑战性问题。 培训计划将通过认知科学中心(CCS)进行管理，CCS是一个跨学科、跨部门的单位，拥有面向研究生培训的设施和计划的现有基础设施。来自9个部门的26名讲师都有很强的培训和研究资历，都有活跃的重点实验室。该中心拥有独一无二的机会，能够利用教师的专业知识，将我们的三个研究领域和四个交叉方法相互交织在一起。该培训计划的一个重要特点是，对翻译研究感兴趣的教职员工具有很强的代表性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for five years of support for an interdisciplinary training program in cognitive science. The program will integrate biological and behavioral approaches in three focused research domains of greatest strength at the University of Minnesota--perception and action, learning and memory, and emotion and affect. These topics are currently among the most active areas in cognitive science, and all have direct application to human health. Future major advances in these areas are likely to come from researchers who have expertise bridging multiple approaches, thus motivating our plans to provide interdisciplinary training. Each year, the program will train 12 predoctoral and 3 postdoctoral students. Trainees, specializing in one of the three research domains, will receive advanced training in at least two of four major approaches-developmental, behavioral, neurobiological, and computational--and will have co-advisors representing at least two of these approaches. Features of the training program ensuring interdisciplinary breadth include multiple laboratory exposure, weekly multidisciplinary colloquia, journal clubs and seminars, travel to conferences, instruction in the responsible conduct of research, and an annual research symposium. Ultimately, our goal is to provide a multi-lab, and multi-advisor experience that will allow our trainees to move fluidly among topics, instrumentation, and advanced methods, to address challenging problems in cognitive science and human mental health. The training program will be administered through the Center for Cognitive Sciences (CCS), an interdisciplinary, inter-departmental unit with an existing infrastructure of facilities and programs geared to graduate training. The 26 preceptors from nine departments all have strong training and research credentials, and all have active, major laboratories. The Center has the unique opportunity to develop a training program with faculty expertise capable of interweaving our three research domains and four cross-cutting approaches. An important feature of the training program is the strong representation of faculty with interests in translational research.