Interdisciplinary Training Program in Cognitive Science

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份为期五年的认知科学跨学科培训项目续签申请。该项目将生物学和行为学方法整合到明尼苏达大学最强大的三个重点研究领域——感知与行动、学习与记忆、情感与影响。这些主题是目前认知科学中最活跃的领域之一，并且都对人类健康有直接的应用。未来这些领域的重大进展很可能来自于那些具有连接多种方法的专业知识的研究人员，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名博士生。专攻这三个研究领域之一的受训者，将接受四种主要方法中至少两种的高级培训——发育、行为、神经生物学和计算——并将有代表其中至少两种方法的联合顾问。培训计划的特点是确保跨学科的广度，包括多个实验室接触，每周多学科讨论会，期刊俱乐部和研讨会，会议旅行，指导负责任的研究行为和职业技能，以及年度研究研讨会。我们的学员将有机会进行翻译研究，并与代表性不足的本科生群体互动。最终，我们的目标是继续提供多实验室和多导师的经验，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。该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、跨部门的单位，拥有面向研究生培训的现有基础设施和项目。来自9个系的32位导师都有很强的培训和研究资质，并且都有活跃的主要实验室。该中心拥有独特的机会来开发一个培训项目，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。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a renewal application for five years of continued support for an interdisciplinary training program 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 12 predoctoral 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 career skills, and an annual research symposium. Our trainees will have opportunities for translational research, and to interact with undergraduate students in under represented groups. 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.