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在日本札幌举行的2012年认知科学学会年会，并在会议结束后立即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研究认知科学的首要国际组织。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，在人类身上达到顶峰，在人工系统中被模拟。总的来说，会议为认知科学领域最新研究的首次交流提供了一个论坛，重点关注广泛的学科和跨学科主题，代表来自心理学、计算机科学、神经科学、语言学和人类学。每年，年会包括丰富的教程和研讨会可供学生选择。研讨会和辅导课对任何学科都有帮助，但在认知科学中尤其需要它们，因为很少有学生来自跨越该领域广度的专业知识。在过去的十年里，认知科学的许多领域的研究在日本蓬勃发展。因此，促进国际间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.