Visual Cognition

描述（由申请人提供）：视觉认知的培训计划是基于这样一种信念，即视觉是理解心灵的核心，现在只能以整合许多传统学科（认知心理学，心理物理学，神经科学，神经心理学，计算机视觉）的知识和方法的方式进行研究。这需要新一代的科学家，他们的培训涵盖了所有这些学科。麻省理工学院是这样一个计划的完美场所，因为它在视觉科学（研究和培训）方面的成就历史悠久，该部门的不寻常的组成（实验心理学，计算和神经科学），以及其经验和基础设施由大脑和认知科学部门贡献的跨学科培训计划。该计划为博士前学生提供认知科学和神经科学的核心课程，丰富的研究经验，口头和书面资格考试，讲座课程和研究研讨会，本科教学的经验和培训，密切监督进展，反复口头陈述，并沉浸在对视觉认知感兴趣的学生和研究员的同龄人文化中。现在是更新这项培训补助金的关键时刻，因为我们预计在未来几年内我们部门的视觉研究会有很大的扩展，这是由于新的MIT-MGH Martinos生物医学成像中心增加了对脑成像设备的使用，以及麦戈文脑研究所预计会有大量新员工（PI是其中的一员），其中一些人可能从事高层次的视觉工作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The training program in Visual Cognition is based on the beliefs that vision is central to the understanding of the mind, and that it can now 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 a perfect 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 its experience and infrastructure for an interdisciplinary training program contributed by the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. The program has provided predoctoral students with core courses in cognitive science and neuroscience, extensive research experience, oral and written qualifying exams, lecture courses and 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. Now is a crucial time for the renewal of this training grant because of the great expansion in vision research we expect in our department over the next few years, resulting from the increased access to brain imaging equipment at the new MIT-MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, and from the numerous new hires expected in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research (of which the PI is a member), several of whom are likely to work on high-level vision.