CNBC graduate training program

[Dave_Touretzky@DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU]

			Graduate Training with the
		 Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition offers interdisciplinary Ph.D.
and postdoctoral training programs operated jointly with affiliated
programs at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh:

    Carnegie Mellon		University of Pittsburgh
      Biological Sciences         Mathematics
      Computer Science	          Neurobiology
      Psychology                  Neuroscience
      Robotics                    Psychology

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: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 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, or robotics.  For a brochure describing the program and
application materials, 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

This material is also available on our web site at http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu

The CNBC training faculty includes:

German Barrionuevo (Pitt Neuroscience):  LTP in hippocampal slice
Marlene Behrmann (CMU Psychology): spatial representations in parietal cortex
Pat Carpenter (CMU Psychology): mental imagery, language, and problem solving
Jonathan Cohen (CMU Psychology): schizophrenia; dopamine and attention
Carol Colby (Pitt Neuroscience): spatial reps. in primate parietal cortex
Bard Ermentrout (Pitt Mathematics): oscillations in neural systems
Julie Fiez (Pitt Psychology): fMRI studies of language
John Horn (Pitt Neurobiology): synaptic learning in invertebrates
Allen Humphrey (Pitt Neurobiology): motion processing in primary visual cortex
Marcel Just (CMU Psychology): visual thinking, language comprehension
Eric Klann (Pitt Neuroscience): hippocampal LTP and LTD
Alan Koretsky (CMU Biological Sciences): new fMRI techniques for brain imaging
Tai Sing Lee (CMU Comp. Sci.): primate visual cortex; computer vision
David Lewis (Pitt Neuroscience): anatomy of frontal cortex
James McClelland (CMU Psychology): connectionist models of cognition
Carl Olson (CNBC): spatial representations in primate frontal cortex
David Plaut (CMU Psychology): connectionist models of reading
Michael Pogue-Geile (Pitt Psychology): development of schizophrenia
John Pollock (CMU Biological Sci.): neurodevelopment of the fly visual system
Walter Schneider (Pitt Psychology): fMRI studies of attention and vision
Charles Scudder (Pitt Neurobiology): motor learning in cerebellum
Susan Sesack (Pitt Neuroscience): anatomy of the dopaminergic system
Dan Simons (Pitt Neurobiology): sensory physiology of the cerebral cortex
William Skaggs (Pitt Neuroscience): representations in rodent hippocampus
David Touretzky (CMU Comp. Sci.): hippocampus, rat navigation, animal learning