DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITION

脑与认知科学系的使命是促进对智力研究的跨学科方法，将实验心理学和神经科学的实质和方法与语言学和数学的正式分析结合起来。由于我们系三分之二的教职员工研究学习和发展问题，认知发展领域是一个主要的统一智力焦点。拟议的发展培训计划旨在通过以我系为代表的多学科发展方法的广泛培训，为6名博士后和2名博士后学生提供从事发展认知科学研究职业所需的知识、技能和观点。该计划强调学生的主要集中领域的深度。受训者需要在至少两名教职员工的实验室进行研究，最好是使用来自不同子学科的方法来面对单一认知领域的问题。学员还将在整个研究生或博士后培训期间参加一个多学科发展研讨会。博士前实习生将在头两年完成其他必修课程，之后他们将参加资格考试。在接下来的学期中，实习生将在教师顾问的指导下，从一系列灵活的课程、研讨会和指导阅读中进行选择。还将鼓励博士后学员参加研讨会，以拓宽他们在认知发展方面的经验视角，并期望他们在其专业领域的研讨会中发挥积极作用。

The mission of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences is to promote an interdisciplinary approach to the study of intelligence, combining the substance and methods of experimental psychology and neuroscience with the formal analyses of linguistics and mathematics. Because two-thirds of the faculty in our department study problems of learning and development, the field of cognitive development is a major unifying intellectual focus. The proposed developmental training program is designed to give 6 predoctoral and 2 postdoctoral students the knowledge, skills and perspective they will need to pursue research careers in developmental cognitive science, through broad training in the multidisciplinary approaches to development represented by our department. The program emphasizes depth in a student's primary area of concentration. Trainees are expected to conduct research in the laboratories of at least two faculty members, preferably using methods derived from different subdisciplines to confront problems in a single cognitive domain. Trainees also will attend a multidisciplinary developmental seminar throughout their graduate or postdoctoral training. Predoctoral trainees will complete other required course work in the first two years, after which they will take qualifying exams. In succeeding semesters, trainees will choose from a flexible array of courses, seminars, and guided readings under the supervision of faculty advisors. Postdoctoral trainees will also be encouraged to attend seminars to broaden their empirical perspective on cognitive development, and they are expected to take an active role in seminars within their areas of specialization.