VISUAL COGNITION

麻省理工学院脑与认知科学系的认知神经科学中心提议创建一个视觉认知研究培训项目。该项目基于这样一种信念，即视觉是理解心灵的核心，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，他们的训练涵盖所有这些学科。麻省理工学院是一个特别适合这样一个项目的地方，因为它在视觉科学（研究和培训）方面的成就历史悠久，院系的不同寻常的组成（实验心理学，计算和神经科学），以及认知神经科学中心的存在，为跨学科的培训项目提供了经验和基础设施。该项目将为六名博士预科生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（在三个组成部门的两个不同领域），口头和书面资格考试，研究研讨会，本科教学的经验和培训，密切监督进展，重复的口头报告，沉浸在对视觉认知感兴趣的学生和同事的同伴文化中。

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.