Connectionists: Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) in cognitive modeling at Vanderbilt this summer

[Thomas Palmeri]

Please pass on to undergraduates interested in a research experience this summer. We are especially interested in recruiting students with interests in modeling.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES (REU) AT THE CatLab AT VANDERBILT

We looking for outstanding students interested in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at the CatLab at Vanderbilt University. Our REU is part of an NSF-funded project entitled Perceptual Categorization in Real-World Expertise. This project uses online behavioral experiments to understand the temporal dynamics of perceptual expertise, measuring and manipulating the dynamics of object recognition and categorization at different levels of abstraction and assessing how those dynamics vary over measured levels of expertise, using computational models to test hypotheses about expertise mechanisms. Students have opportunities to work on projects ranging from the development of online experiments, development of analysis routines, and development and testing of computational models. This REU is especially appropriate for students interested in applying to graduate programs in psychology, vision science, cognitive science, or neuroscience. The REU provides a $5000 summer stipend, $500 per week for ten weeks; an additional $150 per week helps offsets the cost of housing and meals; a $250 travel allowance is also provided. REUs are restricted to undergraduate students currently enrolled in a degree program and must be U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, or permanent residents of the United States. Undergraduates who are students at Vanderbilt may have the opportunity to continue the REU experience into the 2015-16 academic year.

For more information: http://catlab.psy.vanderbilt.edu/research-experience-for-undergraduates-reu-at-the-catlab <http://catlab.psy.vanderbilt.edu/research-experience-for-undergraduates-reu-at-the-catlab>
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Thomas Palmeri
Professor of Psychology
Director of Graduate Studies
co-Director of Scientific Computing
507 Wilson Hall
Vanderbilt University
thomas.j.palmeri at vanderbilt.edu
http://catlab.psy.vanderbilt.edu <http://catlab.psy.vanderbilt.edu/> 

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