Connectionists: New PhD Positions - Cognitive Science at Dartmouth!

[Steven M. Frankland]

The Dartmouth Program in Cognitive Science is excited to welcome applications for prospective PhD students to work jointly with Jonathan Phillips,<http://phillab.host.dartmouth.edu/> Steven Frankland<https://stevenfrankland.com/> and Fred Callaway.<https://fredcallaway.com/> Our research groups study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world. Some of the questions we plan to investigate are:



·  how does the mind compose new thoughts out of familiar pieces?

·  what determines which thoughts come to mind and which thoughts don’t?

·  why can we hold so few things in mind at once?

·  how do we quickly learn to reason about new kinds of problems?

·  why do some people worry too much, but others not enough?



More generally, if you’re interested in resource-rationality, compositionality, decision making, and/or conceptual representation, you should apply to work with us through Dartmouth’s Psychological and Brain Sciences PhD program<https://pbs.dartmouth.edu/graduate/graduate-admissions> (due Dec. 1). We also maintain close ties with Computer Science, Philosophy, and Linguistics departments, which provide additional breadth of resources for Ph.D. candidates.

Interested in learning more? Here's more info!<https://sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/>

Feel free to reach out to any of us if you have additional questions about the PhD program!

Steven (steven.m.frankland at dartmouth.edu<mailto:steven.m.frankland at dartmouth.edu>)
Jonathan (jonathan.s.phillips at dartmouth.edu<mailto:jonathan.s.phillips at dartmouth.edu>)
Fred (fredcallaway at gmail.com<mailto:fredcallaway at gmail.com>)

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