GRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITION

认知神经基础中心提供跨学科的博士水平教育课程，旨在培养一批优秀的研究人员，他们将现有学科的技能、洞察力和观点带入新兴的认知神经科学新学科。这项计划现在已经运作了近10年。该项目招收了来自卡内基梅隆大学和匹兹堡大学七个不同系的学生。学生被要求学习一门包括四门核心课程(基础神经科学、系统神经科学、认知神经科学和计算神经科学)的课程，这些课程通常与他们所在系的核心要求几乎没有重叠。学生还参加学生和教师的一系列研究报告、学生举办的一系列座谈会和一年一度的静修活动，在这些活动中，通过研究报告和讨论小组的组合来考虑当前的问题，这些讨论小组侧重于认知神经基础中心所涵盖的广泛科学活动中的特殊问题，并鼓励学生参加国内和国际会议，以接触当代研究。该项目目前有51名参与者，该项目的17名毕业生都在从事研究工作，其中许多人要么是助理教授，要么是优秀实验室的博士后研究员。我们正在为该项目增加一个新的研究伦理系列，并正在加入一项广泛的招聘努力，以增加参与者的多样性。该计划自成立以来一直得到NSF研究培训拨款的支持，该拨款现已到期，不可续期。目前的提案寻求资金，以允许这一计划的继续。

The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition offers an interdisciplinary Ph. D. level educational program intended to create a cohort of excellent researchers who bring the skills, insights, and perspectives from a wide range of existing disciplines into the emerging new discipline of Cognitive Neuroscience. This program has now been in operation for almost 10 years. The program takes students from seven different departments spread over Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh. Students are required to pursue a course of study including four core courses (Basic Neuroscience, Systems Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Computational Neuroscience) that often overlap very little with the core requirements of their home departments. Students also participate in a series of student and faculty research presentations, a student-run colloquium series and an annual retreat in which current issues are considered through a combination of research presentations and discussion groups focusing on special issues within the broad range of scientific activities encompassed by the Center for the Neural basis of Cognition, and students are encouraged to attend national and international meetings to gain exposure to contemporary research. There are currently 51 participants in the program, and the program's 17 graduates are all pursuing research careers, many of them either as assistant professors or as post-doctoral fellows in outstanding laboratories. We are adding a new research ethics series to the program and are joining in a broad recruitment effort to increase diversity among the participants. The program has been supported since its inception by an NSF research training grant that has now run its course and is not renewable. The current proposal seeks funding to allow the continuation of this program.