Graduate training with the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

[Dave_Touretzky@cs.cmu.edu]

Note: application deadline January 1, 2002.


			Graduate Training with 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 eight
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/Training.

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, 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

The affiliated PhD programs at the two universities are:

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

The CNBC training faculty includes:

Eric Ahrens (CMU Biology): MRI studies of the vertebtate nervous system
John Anderson (CMU Psychology): models of human cognition
German Barrionuevo (Pitt Neuroscience):  LTP in hippocampal slice
Alison Barth (CMU Biology): molecular basis of plasticity in neocortex
Marlene Behrmann (CMU Psychology): spatial representations in parietal cortex
Pat Carpenter (CMU Psychology): mental imagery, language, and problem solving
Cameron S. Carter (Pitt Psychology/Neuroscience): fMRI and PET attention studies
Carson Chow (Pitt Mathematics): spatiotemporal dynamics in neural networks
Carol Colby (Pitt Neuroscience): spatial reps. in primate parietal cortex
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
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
Allen Humphrey (Pitt Neurobiology): motion processing in primary visual cortex
Satish Iyengar (Pitt Statistics): spike train data analsysis
Marcel Just (CMU Psychology): visual thinking, language comprehension
Robert Kass (CMU Statistics): transmission of info. by collections of neurons
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
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
Paula Monaghan Nichols (Pitt Neurobiology): vertebrate CNS development
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
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
Peter Strick (Pitt Neurobiology): motor control; basal ganglia and cerebellum
Flo Thiels (Pitt Neurosicence): LTP and LTD in hippocampus
David Touretzky (CMU Comp. Sci.): hippocampus, rat navigation, animal learning
Nathan Urban (CMU Bioogy):  circuitry of the olfactory bulb
Valerie Ventura (CMU Statistics): structure of neural firing patterns

See http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu for further details.