Interdisciplinary Training Program in Cognitive Science

请参阅说明)： 这是对认知领域跨学科培训计划的五年持续支持的续订建议。 科学。该计划整合了三个重点研究领域的生物学和行为学方法。 明尼苏达大学的力量--感知和行动，学习和记忆，以及情感和情感。这些 这些主题目前是认知科学中最活跃的领域之一，所有这些主题都对人类健康有直接的应用。 未来在这些领域的重大进展很可能来自于拥有跨越多个 方法，从而激励我们提供跨学科培训的计划。 该项目每年将培养12名博士后研究生。受训者，专门从事三个研究领域中的一个， 将接受四种主要方法中至少两种的高级培训-发展，行为，神经生物学， 和计算性--并将有代表至少两种方法的联合顾问。培训的特点 确保跨学科广度的计划，包括多个实验室接触，每周多学科座谈， 日记俱乐部和研讨会，参加会议，在负责任的研究和职业技能方面进行指导， 以及一年一度的研究研讨会。我们的实习生将有机会进行翻译研究，并与 代表不足的群体中的本科生。最终，我们的目标是继续提供多实验室，并 多名顾问的经验，使我们的受训人员能够流畅地在主题、工具和高级 方法，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进行管理，该中心是一个跨学科、跨领域的 部门单位，具有现有的基础设施和面向研究生培训的计划。32位 来自九个部门的教授都有很强的培训和研究资历，都有活跃的、专业的 实验室。该中心拥有独特的机会来制定培训计划，其教职员工的专业知识能够 将我们的三个研究领域和四个交叉方法交织在一起。 相关性(请参阅说明)： 该计划将培养未来的博士，以促进我们对现在我们所获得的、学习的、记忆的和 利用知识。学员将学习适用于公共卫生关键问题的研究，包括 视力丧失、运动功能障碍、记忆病理、成瘾和精神疾病。他们的研究和 它的应用将促进儿童在感知、认知、情感和运动方面的成功发展。

See instructions): This is a renewal proposal for five years of continued support for an interdisciplinary trainingprogram in cognitive science. The program integrates 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 applications 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 12predoctoral 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 includemultiple laboratory exposure, weekly multidisciplinary colloquia, journal clubs and seminars, travel to conferences, instructi6n in the responsible conduct of research and career skills, and an annual research symposium. Our trainees will have opportunities for translational research, and to interact with undergraduate students in underrepresentedgroups. Ultimately, our goal is to continue 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, an interdisciplinary, inter- departmental unit with an existing infrastructure of facilities and programs geared to graduate training. The 32 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. RELEVANCE (See instructions): This program will train future PhDs to advance our understanding of now we acquire, learn, remember, and use knowledge. Trainees will leam to do research applicable to crucial problems in public health including loss of vision, motor dysfunction, pathologies of memory, addiction, and mental illness. Their research and its application will promote successful perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and motor development in children.