Connectionists: graduate training in the neural basis of cognition

[Dave_Touretzky@cs.cmu.edu]

			Graduate Training at the
		 Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition offers an
interdisciplinary doctoral training program operated jointly with
elevent affiliated PhD programs at Carnegie Mellon University and the
University of Pittsburgh.  Detailed information about this program is
available on our web site at http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu

The Center is dedicated to the study of the neural basis of cognitive
processes including learning and memory, language and thought,
perception, attention, and planning; to the study of the development
of the neural substrate of these processes; to the study of disorders
of these processes and their underlying neuropathology; and to the
promotion of applications of the results of these studies to
artificial intelligence, robotics, and medicine.

CNBC students have access to some of the finest facilities for
cognitive neuroscience research in the world: Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners for
functional brain imaging, neurophysiology laboratories for recording
from brain slices and from anesthetized or awake, behaving animals,
electron and confocal microscopes for structural imaging, high
performance computing facilities including an in-house supercomputer
for neural modeling and image analysis, and patient populations for
neuropsychological studies.

Students are admitted jointly to a home department and the CNBC
Training Program.  Applications are encouraged from students with
interests in biology, neuroscience, psychology, engineering, physics,
mathematics, computer science, statistics, or robotics.  For more
information about the program, and to obtain application materials,
visit our web site at www.cnbc.cmu.edu, or contact us at the following
address:

  Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
  115 Mellon Institute
  4400 Fifth Avenue
  Pittsburgh, PA 15213
  Tel. (412) 268-4000.  Fax: (412) 268-5060
  email: cnbc-admissions at cnbc.cmu.edu
  Web:  http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu

The affiliated PhD programs at the two universities are:

    Carnegie Mellon		     University of Pittsburgh
      Biological Sciences              BioEngineering
      Biomedical Engineering           Mathematics
      Computer Science	               Neuroscience
      Computational & Statistical      Psychology
         Learning
      Psychology                  
      Robotics
      Statistics

The CNBC training faculty includes:

Eric Ahrens (CMU Biology): MRI studies of the vertebrate nervous system
Susan Amara (Pitt Neurobiology): neurotransmitter transport and binding
John Anderson (CMU Psychology): models of human cognition
Galia Avidan (CMU Psychology): fMRI studies of object and face recognition
German Barrionuevo (Pitt Neuroscience): hippocampus and prefrontal cortex
Alison Barth (CMU Biology): molecular basis of plasticity in neocortex
Marlene Behrmann (CMU Psychology): spatial representations in parietal cortex
Guoqiang Bi (Pitt Neurocience): activity-dependent synaptic modification
J. Patrick Card (Pitt Neuroscience): transneuronal tracing of neural circuits
Pat Carpenter (CMU Psychology): mental imagery, language, and problem solving
Carol Colby (Pitt Neuroscience): spatial reps. in primate parietal cortex
Justin Crowley (CMU Biology): development of visual cortex
Tracy Cui (Pitt BioEngineering): biosensors, neural microlectrode arrays
Steve DeKosky (Pitt Neurobiology): neurodegenerative human disease
William Eddy (CMU Statistics): analysis of fMRI data
Bard Ermentrout (Pitt Mathematics): oscillations in neural systems
Julie Fiez (Pitt Psychology): fMRI studies of language
Neeraj Gandhi (Pitt Neuroscience): neural control of movement
Chris Genovese (CMU Statistics): making inferences from scientific data
Lori Holt (CMU Psychology): mechanisms of auditory and speech perception
John Horn (Pitt Neurobiology): synaptic plasticity in autonomic ganglia
Satish Iyengar (Pitt Statistics): spike train data analsysis
Jon Johnson (Pitt Neuroscience): ligand-gated ion channels; NMDA receptor
Marcel Just (CMU Psychology): visual thinking, language comprehension
Karl Kandler (Pitt Neurobiology): neural development; inhibitory pathways
Robert Kass (CMU Statistics): transmission of info. by collections of neurons
Seog-Gi Kim (Pitt Neurobiology): technology and biophysics of fMRI
Roberta Klatzky (CMU Psychology): human perception and cognition
Richard Koerber (Pitt Neurobiology): devel. and plasticity of spinal networks
Tai Sing Lee (CMU Comp. Sci.): primate visual cortex; computer vision
Michael Lewicki (CMU Comp. Sci.): learning and representation
David Lewis (Pitt Neuroscience): anatomy of frontal cortex
Beatriz Luna (Pitt Pschology): developmental psychology and fMRI
Brian MacWhinney (CMU Psychology): models of language acquisition
Yoky Matsuoka (CMU Robotics):  human motor control and motor learning
James McClelland (CMU Psychology): connectionist models of cognition
Steve Meriney (Pitt Neuroscience): mechanisms of synaptic plasticity
Nancy Minshew (Pitt Neurobiology): cognitive and neural basis of autism
Tom Mitchell (CMU Comp. Sci.): machine learning with application to fMRI
Bita Moghaddam (Pitt Neuroscience): prefrontal cortex and psychiatric disorders
Paula Monaghan-Nichols (Pitt Neurobiology): genetic analysis of verteb. CNS devel.
Carl Olson (CNBC): spatial representations in primate frontal cortex
Charles Perfetti (Pitt Psychology): language and reading processes
David Plaut (CMU Psychology): connectionist models of reading
Michael Pogue-Geile (Pitt Psychology): development of schizophrenia
Lynne Reder (CMU Psychology): models of memory and cognitive processing
Erik Reichle (Pitt Psychology): attention and eye movements in reading
Jonathan Rubin (Pitt Mathematics): analysis of systems of coupled neurons
Walter Schneider (Pitt Psych.): fMRI, models of attention & skill acquisition
Andrew Schwartz (Pitt Bioengineering): motor control, neural prostheses
Susan Sesack (Pitt Neuroscience): anatomy of the dopaminergic system
Greg Siegle (Pitt Psychology): emotion and cognition; cognitive modeling
Dan Simons (Pitt Neurobiology): sensory physiology of the cerebral cortex
Marc Sommer (Pitt Neuroscience): neural circuitry controlling eye movements
Peter Strick (Pitt Neurobiology): motor control; basal ganglia and cerebellum
Floh Thiels (Pitt Neurosicence): LTP and LTD in hippocampus
Erik Thiessen (Pitt Psychology): child language development
Natasha Tokowicz (Pitt Psychology): language learning; bilingualism
David Touretzky (CMU Comp. Sci.): hippocampal modeling, cognitive robotics
Nathan Urban (CMU Bioogy):  circuitry of the olfactory bulb
Valerie Ventura (CMU Statistics): structure of neural firing patterns
Mark Wheeler (Pitt Psychology): fMRI studies of memory and cognition
Nick Yeung (CMU Psychology): neural mechanisms of attention

Please see http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu for further details.