TRAINING IN PERCEPTUAL AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

约翰霍普金斯大学心理学系、认知科学系和神经科学系提出了一个新的感知和认知神经科学跨学科培训计划。该计划的目的是通过先进的课程和实验室经验，培养博士前和博士后学生在感知和认知的神经基础上的教学和独立研究。该计划将强调独立构思和执行每个学员所选领域的尖端，多学科研究所需的技术技能和理论洞察力。该项目将由三个系的核心教师共同管理，并由大学内相关系的参与教师补充。受训人员将在三个部门之一有一个主要的联系。每一位博士学员须完成培训计划所规定的一系列核心要求，此外，每名学员亦须完成其所属部门所规定的少量额外要求。核心要求包括神经科学基础，CNS神经生理学，计算神经科学，认知神经科学和认知心理学的研究生课程。在第一年，每个博士前实习生将在两个非家庭部门（例如，认知科学博士预科生将完成心理学和神经科学的轮换）。所有的博士前和博士后学员将参加联合研讨会和期刊俱乐部会议，在该项目的教师和学员将提出并讨论当前的研究知觉和认知神经科学。正在进行的感知和认知神经科学演讲系列将为学员提供杰出学者和科学家的最新研究。 该计划涵盖的研究领域包括灵长类神经生理学（视觉和体感系统），神经可塑性，功能性神经成像（例如，PET和fMRI）、认知神经心理学和神经学、视觉和触觉心理物理学、生物声学和听觉感知、注意力、感知发展以及感知、记忆和认知的计算和神经网络模型。 所有的实验室设施在过去的6年内都经过了新的装修，并且是最先进的。受训人员和项目教员都住在约翰霍普金斯大学霍姆伍德校区的相邻建筑里。

The Departments of Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience of The Johns Hopkins University propose a new interdisciplinary training program in perceptual and cognitive neuroscience. The purpose of the program is to train predoctoral and postdoctoral students for careers in teaching and independent research in the neural basis of perception and cognition through advanced coursework and laboratory experience. The program will emphasize the technical skill and theoretical insight required to independently conceive and execute cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research in each trainee's chosen area. The program will be jointly administered by core faculty in the-three departments, supplemented by participating faculty in related departments within the University. Trainees will have a primary affiliation in one of the three departments. Each Ph.D. candidate will complete a common set of core requirements stipulated by the training program, in addition, each trainee will complete a small number of additional requirements stipulated by their home department. The core requirements include graduate courses in Foundations of Neuroscience, CNS Neurophysiology, Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Cognitive Psychology. During the first year, each predoctoral trainee will complete a 10-week laboratory rotation in each of the two non-home departments (e.g., a Cognitive Science predoctoral student would complete rotations in Psychology and Neuroscience). All predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees will participate in joint seminars and Journal Club meetings in which program faculty and trainees will present and discuss current research in perceptual and cognitive neuroscience. An ongoing speaker series in Perceptual and Cognitive Neuroscience will provide trainees with exposure to current research by distinguished scholars and scientists. Research areas covered in the program include primate neurophysiology (visual and somatosensory systems), neural plasticity, functional neuroimaging (e.g., PET and fMRI), cognitive neuropsychology and neurology, visual and tactile psychophysics, bioacoustics and auditory perception, attention, perceptual development, and, computational and neural network models of perception, memory, and cognition. All laboratory facilities have been newly renovated within the last 6 years and are state of the art. Trainees and program faculty members are housed in adjacent buildings on the Homewood Campus of The Johns Hopkins University.