Interdisciplinary Training Program in Cognitive Science

描述（由申请人提供）： 这是一份为期五年的支持认知科学跨学科培训计划的申请。该计划将在明尼苏达大学最具实力的三个重点研究领域整合生物学和行为学方法-感知和行动，学习和记忆，情绪和影响。这些主题是目前认知科学中最活跃的领域之一，并且都直接应用于人类健康。这些领域未来的重大进展可能来自于拥有多种方法桥接专业知识的研究人员，从而激励我们计划提供跨学科培训。 该项目每年将培养12名博士后和3名博士后。受训者，专门从事三个研究领域之一，将接受高级培训，至少有两个四个主要的方法-发展，行为，神经生物学和计算-并将有共同顾问代表这些方法中的至少两个。确保跨学科广度的培训计划的特点包括多个实验室曝光，每周多学科座谈会，期刊俱乐部和研讨会，前往会议，在研究的负责任的行为指令，和年度研究研讨会。最终，我们的目标是提供多实验室和多顾问的体验，使我们的学员能够在主题，仪器和先进方法之间流畅地移动，以解决认知科学和人类心理健康方面的挑战性问题。 培训计划将通过认知科学中心（CCS）管理，该中心是一个跨学科的跨部门单位，拥有面向研究生培训的设施和计划的现有基础设施。 来自九个部门的26位导师都有很强的培训和研究证书，并且都有活跃的主要实验室。该中心有独特的机会，开发一个培训计划与教师的专业知识能够交织我们的三个研究领域和四个交叉的方法。 培训计划的一个重要特点是对翻译研究感兴趣的教师的强烈代表性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for five years of support for an interdisciplinary training program in cognitive science. The program will integrate biological and behavioral approaches in three focused research domains of greatest strength at the University of Minnesota--perception and action, learning and memory, and emotion and affect. These topics are currently among the most active areas in cognitive science, and all have direct application to human health. Future major advances in these areas are likely to come from researchers who have expertise bridging multiple approaches, thus motivating our plans to provide interdisciplinary training. Each year, the program will train 12 predoctoral and 3 postdoctoral students. Trainees, specializing in one of the three research domains, will receive advanced training in at least two of four major approaches-developmental, behavioral, neurobiological, and computational--and will have co-advisors representing at least two of these approaches. Features of the training program ensuring interdisciplinary breadth include multiple laboratory exposure, weekly multidisciplinary colloquia, journal clubs and seminars, travel to conferences, instruction in the responsible conduct of research, and an annual research symposium. Ultimately, our goal is to provide a multi-lab, and multi-advisor experience that will allow our trainees to move fluidly among topics, instrumentation, and advanced methods, to address challenging problems in cognitive science and human mental health. The training program will be administered through the Center for Cognitive Sciences (CCS), an interdisciplinary, inter-departmental unit with an existing infrastructure of facilities and programs geared to graduate training. The 26 preceptors from nine departments all have strong training and research credentials, and all have active, major laboratories. The Center has the unique opportunity to develop a training program with faculty expertise capable of interweaving our three research domains and four cross-cutting approaches. An important feature of the training program is the strong representation of faculty with interests in translational research.