Two Graduate Openings in Brain and Cognitive Sciences

[Morten H. Christiansen]

Dear Colleague,

Please bring the following information to the attention of potential
graduate school applicants from your program with an interest in Brain and
Cognitive Sciences.

TWO GRADUATE OPENINGS IN BRAIN AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES IN THE DEPARTMENT OF
PSYCHOLOGY AT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE.

Dr. Matthew Schlessinger (UMass) and Dr. Michael Young (UIowa) will be
joining the faculty in the Brain and Cognitive Science Graduate Program,
the Department of Psychology at Southern Illinois University. In this
connection, the Brain and Cognitive Science program has two openings for
graduate study (though the two openings are not tied to the incoming
faculty). Each opening comes with a monthly stipend of approximately
$1000.00 for at least nine months. The start date is August 14, 2000, and
applications should be submitted a.s.a.p.

The Ph.D. program in Brain and Cognitive Sciences is unique and exciting.
The focus is on an interdisciplinary approach to understanding human
behavior approached from a combination of developmental (infancy and
childhood, adolescence and aging), neurobiological (neurophysiology,
neuropsychology, genetics), behavioral (human and animal experimentation)
and computational (neural networks, statistical analyses, intelligent
software agents) perspectives. As an integral part of their training,
students become active participants in ongoing faculty research programs
in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Students will receive training in two
or more different research methodologies, and are expected to develop a
multidisciplinary approach to their own research.

Current research by the Brain and Cognitive Sciences faculty includes
perinatal risk factors in child development, neurophysiological and
behavioral correlates of infant and child cognitive and language
development, personality and social correlates of cognitive aging, child
play and social behaviors, identity development across the life span,
judgment and decision making, causal and category learning, neural network
models of learning and sensorimotor cognition, neural network models of
language acquisition and processing, agent-based computational modeling of
the evolution and development of action and perception, artificial grammar
learning, sentence processing, evolution of language and the brain, the
pharmacological modulation of memory, effects of psychoactive drugs,
reversible inactivation of discrete brain areas and memory, recovery of
function from brain damage, electrophysiological models (e.g., long-term
potentiation), the neurophysiology of memory, animal learning, and human
learning and memory.

For more information about the program and application procedures, please
visit our web site at:

	http://www.siu.edu/~psycho/bcs

Visit also the Department's web site at:

	http://www.siu.edu/~psycho


Best regards,

Morten Christiansen
Coordinator of the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Program


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Morten H. Christiansen
Assistant Professor	       	   Phone: +1 (618) 453-3547
Department of Psychology      	   Fax:   +1 (618) 453-3563
Southern Illinois University	   Email: morten at siu.edu
Carbondale, IL 62901-6502   	   Office: Life Sciences II, Room 271A
Personal Web Page: http://www.siu.edu/~psycho/faculty/mhc.html
Lab Web Site: http://www.siu.edu/~morten/csl
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