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| Boston University Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems |
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Mailing Address: Dept. of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, 677 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02215 Telephone: (617) 353-9481 Fax: (617)353-7755 E-mail: amos@cns.bu.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | B.A./M.A Track, M.A., Ph.D |
| Faculty Profile: | 9 department faculty members and 28 affiliated faculty participate in the department. Secondary appointments include biology, computer and electrical engineering, computer science, psychology, mathematics, and biomedical engineering. |
| Major Research Themes: | The units most closely linked to the department are the Center for Adaptive Systems, the Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology, and the CNS Technology Laboratory. Other research resources include the campus-wide Program in Neuroscience, which includes research groups in cognitive neuroscience, neural modeling, sensory robotics, biomedical engineering, computer and systems engineering, and dynamic mathematical systems. |
| Other Information: | CNS students are trained in a broad range of areas concerning computational neuroscience, cognitive science, and neuromorphic systems. The biological training includes study of the brain mechanisms of vision and visual object recognition; audition, speech, and language understanding; recognition learning, categorization, and long-term memory; cognitive information processing; self-organization and development, navigation, planning, and spatial orientation; cooperative and competitive network dynamics and short-term memory; reinforcement and motivation; attention; adaptive sensory-motor planning, control, and robotics; biological rhythms; consciousness; mental disorders; and the mathematical and computational methods needed to support advanced modeling research and applications. Technological training includes methods and applications in image processing, multiple types of signal processing, adaptive pattern recognition and prediction, information fusion, and intelligent control and robotics. |
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| Bowling Green State University Neural and Cognitive Sciences |
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Mailing Address: Dr. Richard Anderson, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403 Telephone: (419) 372-9908 E-mail: randers@bgnet.bgsu.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Ph.D, Minor |
| Faculty Profile: | Closely related with the psychology department at BGSU, the NCS program consists of 11 faculty members with dual appointments in psychology and NCS. |
| Major Research Themes: | The NCS faculty are involved in research in several different aspects of cognitive science and neuroscience. Research topics include: Inference and judgment, models of science understanding, language, sentence processing, auditory cognition, spatial cognition, attention, memory, vision, neural mechanisms of emotion and cognition, basal ganglia and hippocampal function. |
| Other Information: | The doctoral program places an emphasis on developing both theoretical and experimental skills in the neural and/or cognitive sciences, and is sufficiently flexible to accommodate the varied interests of students. The program offers courses in Statistics, Neuroscience Research Methods, Cognitive Research Methods, Cognitive Psychology, Basic Neuroscience and Cognition, Visual and Auditory Perception, Neuroethology, Behavioral Ecology, Artificial Neural Networks, Human Language, and other subjects. Though students traditionally choose to focus almost exclusively on Cognitive Science or Neuroscience, the program allows students to become involved in research that integrates the two sub-fields. Training is offered both through the Department of Psychology and through the J.P. Scott Center for Neuroscience, Mind, and Behavior. |
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Brandeis University Linguistics and Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Linguistics and Cognitive Science Program, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Mailstop 013, Waltham, MA 02454 Telephone: (781) 736-3268 |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major |
| Other Information: | The concentration in linguistics and cognitive science is designed to give students a foundation in the theory of language and its relationship to allied fields of inquiry. The concentration emphasizes the approach of generative grammar, which attempts to describe formally the nature of a speaker's knowledge of his or her native language and place this knowledge in a psychological and biological framework. In the last 30 years, this approach to the study of language has had a profound influence on fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and computer science, as well as the linguist's traditional concerns with modern and classical languages and with linguistic universals. |
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| Brown University Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences |
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Mailing Address: Brown University, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Studies, Box 1978, Providence, RI 02912 Telephone: (401) 863-2616 E-mail: CogLingInfo@brown.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | A.B., Sc.B., Ph.D |
| Faculty Profile: | 17 department faculty members and 10 associated faculty participate in the program. Associated faculty also have appointments in computer science, engineering, psychology, neuroscience, and mathematics. |
| Major Research Themes: | Research in the department is strongly centered around cognitive science and linguistics. Cognitive science research topics include categorization, cognitive neuroscience, judgment, decision making, and learning, neural models of cognition and language and visual perception and action. Linguistics research topics include acquisition of language, computational linguistics, neurolinguistics, speech perception and production, and syntax and semantics. |
| Other Information: | The intellectual life of the department is lively and interactive. In addition to a departmental colloquium series, there are bag lunch groups on various research topics, as well as numerous research meetings. Undergraduate concentrations include: Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Cognitive Neuroscience. A related concentration in Anthropology/Linguistics is administered by the Department of Anthropology |
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Canisius University (Buffalo, NY) Department of Cognitive Science |
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Contact: John Zeis, Director Telephone: (716) 888-2588 E-Mail: zeis@canisius.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Minor |
| Other Information: | The minor program at Canisius is designed to complement majors in the following areas: biology, computer science, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, education, communication studies, and management/marketing. |
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| Carnegie Mellon University / University of Pittsburgh Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition |
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Mailing Address: Graduate Admissions - CNBC, 115 Mellon Institute, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Telephone: (412) 268-4000 Fax: (412) 268-5060 E-mail: cnbc-admissions@cnbc.cmu.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Ph.D |
| Faculty Profile: | The CNBC encompasses a group of 74 faculty, 90 graduate students, 32 post-doctoral fellows and 10 core administrative staff members. Many other individuals who are not officially members of the CNBC participate in the activities of the Center |
| Major Research Themes: | The outstanding faculty of the CNBC includes researchers investigating normal processes and disorders of cognition, and there is a great deal of interest in learning and development. We stress the convergent use of a wide range of methods to investigate topics ranging from sensory processing and motor control to language, semantic cognition, and reasoning. |
| Other Information: | The CNBC is a joint project of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon, integrating the strengths of the University of Pittsburgh in basic and clinical neuroscience with the strengths of Carnegie Mellon in psychology, computer science, biological sciences, and statistics |
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Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH) Cognitive Science |
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Contact: Merlin Donald, Chair Telephone: (219) 688-8734 E-Mail: cogsci@case.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major |
| Faculty Profile: | The Department of Cognitive Science consists of 17 faculty members with primary appointments in cognitive science or other related disciplines including: communication sciences, modern languages and literatures, information systems, psychology, bioethics, mathematics, biology, philosophy and neurology. |
| Major Research Themes: | The department's work is grounded in the fundamental cognitive sciences of neurobiology, neuroscience, psychology, biology, and anthropology, but is unique in its special focus on human creativity and invention, particularly art and technology -- the systems invented by human beings to guide their thought and action both individually and culturally |
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| The City University of New York Cognitive Science Concentration |
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Mailing Address: David Rosenthal, Director, Philosophy 7-111, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309 Telephone: (212) 817-8836 E-mail: david@ruccs.rutgers.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Graduate Concentration, Ph.D |
| Other Information: | The Concentration in Cognitive Science is run in cooperation with the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies of the CUNY Graduate School. To pursue studies in the Concentration, one must be a degree candidate in one of the six constituent Ph.D. Programs: Computer Science, Educational Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, and Speech and Hearing Sciences. Application for admission must be made to the affiliated Ph.D. Program of choice, though it is typically useful also to consult in advance with the Coordinator of Cognitive Science. |
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| Cornell University Cognitive Studies |
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Mailing Address: Cognitive Studies, Uris Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 Telephone: (607) 255-6431 E-mail: cogst@cornell.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Concentration, Graduate Minor |
| Faculty Profile: | The department boasts a large body of faculty with appointments in computer science, psychology, neurobiology and behavior, engineering linguistics, philosophy, sociology and others. |
| Major Research Themes: | Logic and the justification of belief, the nature of mind and action, knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition, knowledge and use of language, perception, concepts and conceptual change, artificial intelligence and parallel distributed processing, neurobiology of cognition |
| Other Information: | Active faculty and student participation and a broad intellectual base spanning multiple departments and colleges make Cornell an exciting environment for the study of mind/brain. Strengths in cognitive psychology, computer science, theoretical and experimental linguistics, philosophy of mind and language, and mathematical logic lead to extensive interactions both in teaching and in research. Expanding programs in computational vision and computational linguistics are linked to these other research strengths. |
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| Dartmouth College Program in Linguistics & Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: : Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 6220 Reed Hall, Room 307, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 Telephone: (603) 646-0322 E-mail: linguistics@dartmouth.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major |
| Faculty Profile: | The program consists of over 25 faculty members with primary appointments many programs and departments including: cognitive science, linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, philosophy, computer science, and several foreign languages. |
| Other Information: | The cognitive science program is issue-oriented and relies on methods drawn from a number of disciplines. Topics of focus include perception, memory, reasoning, and language. Students pursuing a major should become familiar with the basic approaches of psychology, philosophy, computer science, and linguistics; while the electives allow students to gain specialized knowledge in a particular area of cognitive science. Thus, with guidance of an adviser in the program, the student designs a course of study concentrating on such a field as computer simulations of psychological processes, computational linguistics, or philosophy and psychology. |
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| Georgetown University Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Paul Portner, Director, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
20067 U.S.A Telephone: (202) 687-5949 E-mail: portnerp@georgetown.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Minor |
| Faculty Profile: | The program involves faculty from several main campus departments (including Biology, Computer Science, Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, and Psychology) and from the Medical Center (including Neurology, Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Physiology, Pharmacology, Psychiatry and the Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Science--GICCS). |
| Major Research Themes: | Basic and applied neuroscience, applied linguistics, neural development, artificial intelligence, cognitive modeling, perception, logic, functional brain imaging |
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| Georgia Institute of Technology Program in Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Amy Pritchett, Sci.D, 270 Ferst Drive, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 Telephone: (404) 894-0199 E-mail: amy.pritchett@ae.gatech.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Certificate, Minor, Graduate Concentration |
| Faculty Profile: | The department boasts a large body of faculty with appointments in computer science, psychology, neurobiology and behavior, engineering linguistics, philosophy, sociology and others. |
| Major Research Themes: | The overarching theme of the program's research can be characterized as centering on "Cognition, Design, and Technology". Researchers seek to understand cognition in real-world environments, and also the technological artifacts that are used and created in these environments. Part of the research is basic: aimed at understanding basic cognitive processes and mechanisms such as memory, perception, representation, reasoning, understanding, and learning. Part of the research is applied: aimed at designing artifacts to be used by people through employing our understanding of people as cognitive, social, and cultural agents. |
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| Hampshire College School of Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: School of Cognitive Science, Adele Simmons Hall, Amherst, MA 01002-5001 Telephone: (413) 559-5502 E-mail: (Admissions Office) admissions@hampshire.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major |
| Faculty Profile: | The School of Cognitive Science consists of over 20 faculty members with primary appointments in cognitive science, linguistics, psychology, computer science, education, philosophy, communication, cognitive neuroscience, and other programs. |
| Major Research Themes: | Research in the School of Cognitive Science reflects three perspectives: mind and brain; computing technology; and knowledge and language. Courses and projects in cognitive science are supported by the School's laboratory facilities in Adele Simmons Hall, which include an open computing laboratory, child development and cognitive psychology laboratories, and laboratories for projects in digital media, artificial intelligence, and learning technology. Work on animal cognition and behavior is supported by the Animal Research Facility, located on the college farm |
| Other Information: | Hampshire's diverse program serves students with interests in many areas, including psychology, philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, biology, animal behavior, computer science, anthropology, education, child development, learning, digital multimedia, and the social effects of new information technology. |
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| Indiana University Cognitive Science Program |
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Mailing Address: Cognitive Science Program, 819 Eigenmann Hall, 1910 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47406-7512 USA Telephone: (812) 855-0031 Fax: Fax: (812) 855-1086 E-mail: cogsci@indiana.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | B.A., B.S., Minor, Ph.D |
| Faculty Profile: | 65 core faculty members and 38 associated faculty participate in the program. Representation is strong from the departments of psychology, philosophy, computer science, and linguistics. Other participating departments include biology, anthropology, education, library and information science, optometry, speech and hearing sciences, medicine, and mathematics. |
| Major Research Themes: | Faculty and Research Scientists in the Cognitive Science Program are at the forefront of several of the leading research fields of cognitive science. Researchers from the Department of Psychology study perception, learning, language processing and production, memory, decision making, developmental psychology. The interdisciplinary nature of the program also provides for research in robotics, artificial intelligence, animal behavior, philosophy of mind, informatics, and several other fields that are central to the study of cognitive science. |
| Other Information: | The Cognitive Science Program also sponsors a number of open forums to bring researchers together. During the academic year talks are given by researchers from around the world in our biweekly colloquium series. Less formal groups include the weekly cognitive lunch. The Program also sponsors national and international conferences. Undergraduate concentrations include Cognition, Computer Science, Informatics, Foundations, Language, Logic, and Neuroscience. |
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| Johns Hopkins University Department of Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University , Room 237 Krieger Hall, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 Telephone: (410) 516-5250 Fax: (410) 516-8020 E-mail: fisher@cogsci.jhu.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | B.A., Ph.D |
| Faculty Profile: | The Department is home to 19 core and joint faculty members. Secondary appointments of Cognitive Science Department faculty include Computer Science, Engineering, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Psychology and Brain Sciences, Linguistics, Medicine, and Neuroscience. |
| Major Research Themes: | Research approaches and domains include Acquisition & Development, Cognitive Neuropsychology/Neuroscience, Computational Studies, Philosophical and Formal Foundations of Cognitive Science, Psycholinguistics, Theoretical Linguistics, Visual and Spatial Processing. |
| Other Information: | Undergraduate concentrations include Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuropsychology, Linguistics, Computational Approaches to Cognition, Philosophy of Mind, and Neuroscience. |
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| Illinois State University Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences |
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Mailing Address: Illinois State University, Department of Psychology, Graduate Psychology Programs, Campus Box 4620, Normal, IL 61790 Telephone: (309) 438-8651E-mail: jsjorda@ilstu.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Masters |
| Faculty Profile: | The faculty in the Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences area represent a young and enthusiastic group of scholar-instructors with diverse interests. The program is currently home to 12 full time faculty with secondary appointments in the Department of Psychology. |
| Major Research Themes: | CBS faculty conduct research several areas including behavioral neuropsychology, conditioning, perception, learning, memory, psycholinguistics, and cognitive development. |
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| Lehigh University Cognitive Science Program |
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Mailing Address: John B. Gatewood, Lehigh University, 681 Taylor Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015 Telephone: (610) 758-3814 E-mail: JBG1@lehigh.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | B.A., Minor, Graduate Certificate |
| Faculty Profile: | The Cognitive Science Program involves faculty from many departments across the campus. The program consists of 18 faculty members with secondary appointments in psychology, philosophy, computer science, and sociology and anthropology. |
| Major Research Themes: | Research topics include cognitive development, philosophy of mind, robotics, artificial intelligence, social organization, language and culture, neuroanatomy, and cognitive neuroscience. |
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| Massachusetts of Technology Brain and Cognitive Sciences |
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Mailing Address: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room NE20-382, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 Telephone: (617) 253-1000 E-mail: bcs-admissions@mit.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | B.S. Ph.D |
| Faculty Profile: | BCS is powered by a diverse collection of people, each bringing unique skills and perspective to the department. At a glance, the department includes 41 faculty members, over 200 graduate and undergraduate students, 180 researchers and post-doctoral fellows, and 32 staff. |
| Major Research Themes: | Faculty and researchers in the department examine a wide range of topics. BCS faculty apply a range of tools and methodologies in an effort to understand the processes and mechanisms that underlie cognition at all levels – from molecules to cognitive modules. Faculty use this understanding to help answer complex questions in several areas of specialization. These include vision, learning and memory, plasticity and development, sensory systems, language, and reasoning. Each of these areas benefits from and is advanced by research techniques developed and applied by the department. |
| Other Information: | The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences functions as an umbrella organization encompassing the complete spectrum of brain and cognitive science research. The collaborative, interdisciplinary environment within BCS is reflected in the number and variety of our associations with other departments and research centers |
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Miami University Brain and Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Brain and Cognitive Science, 100 Psychology, 90 N. Patterson Ave., Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056 Telephone: (513) 529-2400 |
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| Degrees Offered: | Ph.D. |
| Faculty Profile: | The 16 faculty members in the Brain & Cognitive Science (BCS) area of the Psychology department seek to understand the mental processes and structures that are involved in perceiving, learning, understanding, and acting in ones environment. |
| Major Research Themes: | Miami’s BCS program adopts several general approaches to understanding how people perceive, understand, and act in their environment. First, faculty with interests in Perception and Cognition focus on understanding general mechanisms that allow sensory, perceptual, and conceptual information to be processed. Second, faculty with interests in Neuroscience attempt to understand how mental processes are represented in the brain by physiological systems. Third, faculty with interests in Human Factors and Ergonomics seek to understand how a person’s environment conveys information that enables one to accomplish his or her goals. Finally, several faculty members study cognitive processes and structures by examining how they develop over the life span. Faculty use a variety of methods, ranging from behavioral measurements (e.g., reaction time experiments) to mathematical modeling, to neurophysiological measurements (i.e. single-cell recording). |
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| Michigan State University Cognitive Science Program |
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Mailing Address: Cognitive Science Program, 225A Psychology Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Telephone: (517) 432-7481 Fax: (517) 252-2745 E-mail: info@cogsci.msu.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate and Graduate Specializations |
| Faculty Profile: | The department consists of 29 faculty members. This diverse group of scholars come from a variety of disciplines including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, telecommunications, computer science, physics, psychiatry and others. |
| Major Research Themes: | Research in the department is centered around four main themes: Perception and Action, Cognitive Neuroscience, Language and Communication, and Learning and Memory. |
| Other Information: | Beginning fall 2005, the cognitive science program will offer a new undergraduate concentration in cognitive science. Students can choose to take courses in one or more of the following concentrations: Linguistics, Psychology, Philosophy, Zoology, or Computer Science. The department is now home to the new Cognitive Imaging Research Center (CIRC) is now up and running, supporting cognitively oriented fMRI. |
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North Carolina State University Cognitive Science Program |
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Mailing Address: Dr. Ronald P. Endicott, Department of Philosophy & Religion, Campus Box 8103, Raleigh, NC 27695 Telephone: (919) 515-6195 E-mail: ron_endicott@ncsu.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Minor |
| Other Information: | The Cognitive Science Program, administered by the Department of Philosophy & Religion, offers an undergraduate minor in cognitive science. Students who minor in cognitive science must complete 15 hours, where at least three of the five participating disciplines are represented -- Psychology, Neurobiology, Computer Science, Linguistics, and Philosophy (including Logic). |
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| Northwestern University Cognitive Science Department |
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| E-mail: cogsci@northwestern.edu | |
| Degrees Offered: | Graduate Specialization, Undergraduate Major, Minor |
| Faculty Profile: | The department boasts a large, multidisciplinary faculty with interests in various disciplines of cognitive science. Over 100 faculty participate in the department, most of whom have primary appointments in other departments on the Northwestern campus, including: Audiology and Hearing Sciences, Cognitive Neurology, Computer Science, Education, Learning Sciences, Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology, Physiology. |
| Major Research Themes: | Research in the department is centered around four main themes: Perception and Action, Cognitive Neuroscience, Language and Communication, and Learning and Memory. |
| Other Information: | Cognitive Science at Northwestern features an active program of talks, debates and workshops, as well as a number of cross-discipline research initiatives. Northwestern’s Cognitive Science opportunities include interdisciplinary programs in Culture, Language and Cognition, Learning Sciences, Language and Cognition, and Cognitive Neuroscience. |
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| Occidental College Cognitive Science Program |
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Mailing Address: Cognitive Science Program, Occidental College, 1600 Campus Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90041 Telephone: (614) 292-8200 Fax:(323) 259-2722 E-mail: linden@oxy.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major, Undergraduate Minor |
| Faculty Profile: | The Cognitive Science Program at Occidental College is composed of five faculty members with broad research and teaching interests. Visit the Faculty Page for more information about the cognitive science faculty. |
| Major Research Themes: | Research in the Cognitive Science Program at Occidental College is multidisciplinary. Faculty are exploring many topics, including: philosophy of science, philosophy of space and time, applied mathematics, low dimensional topology, knot theory, and topological graph theory, foundations of cognitive science, contemporary epistemology and the philosophy of mind. |
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| The Ohio State University Center for Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Center for Cognitive Science, 208 Ohio Stadium East, 1961 Tuttle Park Place, Columbus, OH 43210 Telephone: (614) 292-8200 Fax:(614) 292-0321 E-mail: bainer.5@osu.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate and Graduate Minors |
| Faculty Profile: | The department consists of 12 faculty members from several disciplines including psychology, philosophy, music, linguistics, engineering, speech and hearing sciences, and others. |
| Major Research Themes: | The Center for Cognitive Science provides support to interdisciplinary research groups involving faculty and students in areas such as computational vision, music cognition, decision-making, human language processing, and cognitive engineering. Research in Cognitive Science at The Ohio State University pursues the following three objectives: The development of precise formal theories of the various mental faculties based on careful experimental inquiry, The construction of computational models of the various mental faculties, The understanding of the biological mechanisms that underlie mental faculties |
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| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Brain and Cognitive Sciences |
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Mailing Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Carnegie 108, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180 Telephone: (518) 276-6472 Fax: (518) 276-8268 E-mail: osgane@rpi.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | B.S., Ph.D |
| Faculty Profile: | The Department is home to 20 tenure/tenure-track professors with degrees in the Philosophy of the Mind, Cognitive Psychology, and Computer Science. Major Research Themes: Research at the graduate level is divided into four foci: Human and Machine Reasoning, Perception & Action, Computational Cognitive Modeling, and Cognitive Engineering. | Other Information: | Major research labs include the Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (RAIR) Laboratory which deals with many fundamental questions of A.I. and the PandA laboratory which investigates the role of vision in the control of action. |
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| Rice University Cognitive Sciences |
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Mailing Address: Department of Psychology - MS35, Rice University, Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251 Telephone: (713) 348-5144 Fax: (713) 348-5221 E-mail: sch@rice.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | B.A. |
| Faculty Profile: | The program is home to 27 faculty members with appointments in other departments including psychology, linguistics, electrical engineering, computational and applied mathematics, anthropology, and philosophy. |
| Major Research Themes: | Researchers in this program seek to understand such mental phenomena as perception, thought, memory, the acquisition and use of language, learning, concept formation, and consciousness. Some investigators focus on relationships between brain structures and behavior, some work with computer simulation, and others work at more abstract philosophical levels. |
| Other Information: | Although the program does not currently offer a stand alone Ph.D, graduate students in related departments (i.e. psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, etc.) have the opportunity to enroll in several different cognitive science courses. |
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| Rutgers University Psychology Department - Cognitive Science and Perception Area |
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Mailing Address: Department of Psychology, Smith Hall, 101 Warren St., Newark, NJ 07102 Telephone: (973) 353-5440 E-mail: staff@psychology.rutgers.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Ph.D in Psychology - Cognitive Science or Perception Concentration |
| Major Research Themes: | Primary labs include the RUMBA (Rutgers University Mind Brain Analysis) group and the Cognition and Brain Sciences Laboratory. RUMBA researchers work to develop new methods and concepts in modeling and interpretation of brain function in computational and algorithmic terms and to thereby further the fundamental understanding of brain mapping and its implications for brain function. CBSL researchers examine the neuropsychological mechanisms of cognitive processes using behavioral and neuroimaging. Specific topics include how basic memory processes are affected by aging and disease and how fMRI measurements can be used to study memory. The psychology department also utilizes the fMRI magnet at University Heights Center for Advanced Imaging. |
| Other Information: | This area of the psychology department features research and study in the areas of Cognitive Science and Perception. Cognitive Science specialization offers training in the computational and experimental study of cognitive processes. The curriculum provides basic instruction in computational and mathematical modeling methods with a special focus on connectionist systems, learning, memory and categorization. Research in Perception specialization offers study in experimental study of motion and color perception as well as many advanced areas of perception and vision sciences. |
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| Southern Illinois University Brain and Cognitive Sciences |
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Mailing Address: Admissions, Psychology Department, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901 Telephone: (618) 453-3564 E-mail: gradpsyc@siu.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Ph.D |
| Faculty Profile: | The Department is home to 31 faculty members. Faculty represent the four core areas of the SIUC psychology department: clinical, counseling, applied, and brain and cognitive sciences. |
| Major Research Themes: | The BCS program examines cognitive behavior approached from a combination of perspectives: developmental (infancy and childhood, adolescence and aging), neurobiological (neurophysiology, neuropsychology, genetics), behavioral (human and animal experimentation), computational (neural networks, statistical analyses, intelligent software agents). |
| Other Information: | Research is an integral part of training. Through active participation in ongoing faculty research, students receive training in two or more different research methodologies and are expected to develop a multidisciplinary approach to their own research. |
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| University of Alabama at Birmingham Minor in Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: UAB Department of Psychology, Campbell Hall 415, 1300 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35294 Telephone: (205) 934-3850 E-mail: ecook@uab.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Minor |
| Other Information: | Although this minor is administratively housed in the Department of Psychology, it draws from many other disciplines as well, including philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, computer science and anthropology. The minor is designed to provide students interested in consciousness, mental processes and brain-mind issues with an interdisciplinary framework. The minor is particularly relevant for those students considering advanced degrees in virtually any area of psychology, as well as cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, medicine, neurobiology, neuroscience, anthropology, linguistics, biomedical engineering (brain imaging), or vision science. |
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| University of Arizona Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: LouAnn Gerker, Director; 302 Communication Bldg, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 E-mail: gerken@u.arizona.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Graduate Minor, Undergraduate Major, Undergraduate Minor |
| Faculty Profile: | Over 50 regular and affiliate faculty participate in the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Arizona. Affiliated programs include: Psychology, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Linguistics, Business, Philosophy, Engineering, Neurology, Computer Science, and others. |
| Major Research Themes: | The program at Arizona offers particular strength in several areas of cognitive science, including: knowledge structure, natural language processing, cognitive neuroscience, and judgment and decision making. Research in the Cognitive Science Program is centered around seven major research themes: Consciousness, Decision Making, Foundations, Language, Learning, Memory, and Vision. |
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| University at Buffalo, State University of New York Center for Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: The Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo, State University of New York201 Bell Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260 Telephone: (716) 645-2177, ext 795 E-mail: ccs-cogsci-contact@buffalo.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | B.A., Ph.D |
| Faculty Profile: | The department consists of 40 faculty members with appointments in psychology, communications, anthropology, neurology, linguistics, engineering, computer science, and philosophy. |
| Other Information: | Undergraduate focus areas include: Cognitive Development, Computational Modeling, High Level Mental Processes, Language, Neurosciences, and Symbolic Systems. The department organizes colloquia, discussions, workshops, and conferences that bring together both members of the campus and invited visitors working on cutting-edge issues in cognitive science. |
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| University of California at Berkeley Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Cognitive Science, College of Letters and Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, 201 Campbell Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-4487 E-mail: jfeldman@isci.berkeley.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major; Graduate Training |
| Faculty Profile: | The Cognitive Science Department and the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences is home to over 40 faculty members with appointments in psychology, philosophy, computer science, education, and linguistics. |
| Major Research Themes: | Research topics include: cognitive development, artificial intelligence, language acquisition and development, sensorimotor control, attention and executive control, decision making, philosophy of mind, memory, and others. |
| Other Information: | While the Instiute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences does not currently offer a Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science, students interested in pursuing graduate study in this field should plan to apply to one of the related programs. Graduate students can choose a specialization in Cognitive Science and have full access to the resources provded by the ICBS. For more information, visit Graduate Training. A unique feature of undergraduate study in Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley is the Cognitive Science Peer Advising Team. The team is a group of current Cog Sci students who have both training and personal experience in the major. The peer advisors are a valuable resource to students and can answer a broad range of questions from "how do I declare?" to "what can you tell me about the professors who teach class X?". Peer advisors can be reached all semester during drop-in advising or via email. The Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP) is designed to give Berkeley undergraduates opportunities for you to work with faculty on the cutting edge research projects for which Berkeley is world-renowned. |
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| University of California at San Diego
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Mailing Address: University of California, San Diego, Department of Cognitive Science, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 Telephone: (858) 534-6775 Fax: Fax: (858) 534-1128 E-mail: contact@cogsci.ucsd.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | B.S., Interdisciplinary Ph.D, Ph.D in Cognitive Science, Minor |
| Faculty Profile: | Faculty have primary appointments in the Cognitive Science Department as well as secondary appointments in the Departments of Anthropology, Biology, Communication, Computer Science and Engineering, Linguistics, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Sociology. The department is home to 18 faculty, 2 lecturers, and 6 research faculty. |
| Major Research Themes: | A sampling of research lab foci includes: cognitive neuroscience, complex systems, language, distribution cognition and human-computer interaction, and embodied cognition. |
| Other Information: | Undergraduate areas of specialization include: Clinical Aspects of Cognition, Computation, Human Cognition, Human Computer Interaction, and Neuroscience. |
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| University of California, Santa Barbara Cognitive Science |
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| E-mail: montello@geog.ucsb.edu | |
| Degrees Offered: | Graduate Emphasis (see Other Information) |
| Faculty Profile: | The program includes faculty and students in the Schools of Letters & Sciences, Education, and Engineering from eight departments: Anthropology, Computer Science, School of Education, Electrical and Computer Engineering, English, Geography, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy, and Psychology |
| Major Research Themes: | Research topics by associated departments include evolutionary psychology in Anthropology, computational modeling and systems in both Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering, special education and cognitive development in Education, cognitive aspects of writing in English, spatial and geographic cognition in Geography, psycholinguistics and discourse analysis in Linguistics, cognitive and perceptual psychology in Psychology. |
| Other Information: | UCSB does not yet offer a stand-alone Ph.D in cognitive science, but interested doctoral students from four departments (Education, Geography, Linguistics, Psychology) may add an Emphasis in Cognitive Science to the Ph.D. in their home department. |
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| University of Colorado at Boulder Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) |
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Mailing Address: Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, 344 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309 Telephone: (303) 492-5063 E-mail: cogsci@psych.colorado.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Certificate, Graduate Certificate, Joint Ph.D |
| Major Research Themes: | The research within ICS can be loosely categorized into the following six interdisciplinary research areas: Neural and Statistical Modeling of Cognitive Processes, Education, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Processing and Skilled Performance, Language, and Understanding and Production. |
| Other Information: | Institute members have access to a variety of facilities and equipment that provide a first-rate environment for cognitive science research. Facilities are shared across departments as research needs require. |
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| University of Connecticut Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Jay Rueckl, Director; Cognitive Science, Bousfield Building, 406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-1020 Telephone: (860) 486-5502 E-mail: jay.rueckl@uconn.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major |
| Faculty Profile: | Over 35 faculty members participate in the Cognitive Science Program. Faculty hold primary appointments in several related departments including: Psychology, Education, Computer Science, Engineering, Linguistics, Anthropology, and Neurobiology. |
| Other Information: | The cognitive science program is intended to prepare students for graduate training in cognitive science and related disciplines or to work in the information sciences. Advanced courses from at least four different departments are required, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the field. The research and formal systems requirements provide basic knowledge concerning the experimental and theoretical foundations of cognitive science. Finally, cognitive science majors are encouraged to learn about theory building and testing in a variety of natural and physical sciences. |
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| University of Delaware Program in Cognitive Sciences |
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Mailing Address: Prof. Peter Cole, Director, Program in Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, 42 E. Delaware Ave., Newark, DE 19716 Telephone: (302) 831-6829 Fax: Fax: (302) 831-6896 E-mail: pcole@udel.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Minor, Ph.D, Masters (planning in progress) |
| Faculty Profile: | The Program in Cognitive Science draws on faculty and courses from Linguistics, Computer and Information Science, Psychology, Anthropology, Philosophy, Education, and the Speech Lab of the A.I. du Pont Children's Hospital. The program has a number of faculty members with strengths in both applied and theoretical cognitive science. Faculty members in the Departments of Linguistics and Computer and Information Science, and at the Center for Applied Science and Engineering are actively involved in collaborative research associated with cognitive engineering and speech science. |
| Major Research Themes: | Research topics include: language learning, genetics and speech disorders, spatial processing, learning, philosophy of mind, computational learning theory, and human information processing. |
| Other Information: | At the undergraduate level, there are minors in Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics, plus there are opportunities to pursue individualized degrees in Cognitive and Linguistic Science, and Pre-Professional Speech Pathology. At the graduate level, there is course work leading to the equivalent of a secondary specialization in Cognitive Science as part of the Ph.D. in Linguistics and planning is underway for a master's degree in Cognitive Science. |
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| University of Hawaii at Manoa Cognitive Science |
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| Degrees Offered: | The University of Hawaii does not currently have an academic program in cognitive science, but students are encouraged to participate in the different research labs affiliated with the program. |
| Faculty Profile: | Currently, 26 faculty members participate in Cognitive Science at the University of Hawaii. Faculty members hold primary appointments in various departments including: psychology, speech, linguistics, computer science, engineering, neurobiology, and information sciences. For contact information on the program faculty, please visit our Faculty List |
| Major Research Themes: | Researchers at UHM from a broad base of departments address a wide range of topics within Cognitive Science. Among the focus areas are: Animal Cognition - Artificial Intelligence - First and Second Language Acquisition - Human-Computer Interaction - Language and Cognitive Processes |
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| University of Kentucky
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Mailing Address: Dr. Sanford Goldberg, 1427 Patterson Office Tower, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027 Telephone: (859) 257-6540 E-mail: scgold@uky.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Minor, Graduate Certificate |
| Other Information: | The cognitive science curriculum aimed to provide students with an introduction to Cognitive Science as a theory of the (human and animal) mind. Our objectives are to ensure that each student (a) be able to articulate, at least in broad terms, some of the assumptions that have been thought to unify the various subfields within the domain of Cognitive Science, (b) explore more than one discipline’s approach to matters pertaining to Cognitive Science, and (c) explore in some detail at least one of the five main disciplines contributing to cognitive science (Biology, Computer Science, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology). |
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| University of Louisiana at Lafayette Institute of Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Rougeou Hall Room 348, 241 East Lewis Street, Lafayette, LA 70504 Telephone: (337) 482-1130 E-mail: ics@louisiana.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Ph.D |
| Faculty Profile: | Presently, the Institute is composed of eight faculty some of whose primary appointments are in ICS while others have their primary appointments in other departments of the University, specifically, the Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS), the Department of Psychology, the Department of Biology, and the Department of Philosophy. In addition, another fifteen members of the University are associated with ICS as affiliate faculty. Their primary appointments are in the above mentioned departments as well as the Department of Communicative Disorder, the Department of Mathematics, and the Department of English (Linguistics). |
| Major Research Themes: | ICS's areas of research span cognitive phenomena across humans, animals, and machines, and include, in particular, the following emphases: cognitive development, comparative cognition in humans and non-human primates, creativity in humans and machines, language processing, philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, adaptive processes in humans and machines, theoretical and computer-based approaches to cognition, and human cognitive processes. |
| Other Information: | In support of these research areas, ICS is constituted in part of the following research laboratories and projects: the Artificial Intelligence Neural Network Project, the Adaptive Processes Laboratory, the Cognitive and Discourse Processes Laboratory, the Creativity and Cognition Project, and the Language & Cognition Laboratory. |
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| University of Maryland Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Christina Lambert Grogan, 2123A Biology-Psychology Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 2074 Telephone: (301) 405-4789 Fax: (301) 314-9566 E-mail: clambert@psyc.umd.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Ph.D |
| Major Research Themes& Faculty Profile: | The program is home to faculty with internationally renowned research programs in vision, audition, sensorimotor integration, synaptic plasticity, language and communication, learning, memory and decision making, and neuromorphic engineering. These research programs are housed in over 12 different departments, which participate in the NACS Graduate Program in College Park. The NACS program has identified a number of "areas of research focus." These loosely defined communities help to organize the program around particularly active areas of interdisciplinary research on campus. Major research lines include: Auditory Neuroscience, Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Neuroscience, Foundations of Cognitive Science, Human Development, Memory, Decision Making, Reasoning, Network Models and Pattern Recognition, Neuroethology, Neuromorphic Engineering and Sensory-motor Integration, and Speech and Language. |
| Other Information: | The NACS Graduate Program offers world-class interdisciplinary training in several broad areas: Systems neuroscience, molecular and cellular neuroscience, computational and cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive science. |
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| University of Maryland, Baltimore Program in Cognitive Sciences |
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Mailing Address: Tom McHugh, Graduate Program Coordinator, 685 W Baltimore St, Baltimore, MD 21201 Telephone: (410) 706-4701 Fax: (410) 706-4724 E-mail: neurosci@umaryland.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Ph.D and M.D./Ph.D |
| Faculty Profile: | The interdepartmental program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences has over 90 faculty members with laboratories in the Dental School, School of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, and the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. The faculty's many collaborations provide abundant opportunities for students to gain experience in interdisciplinary neuroscience studies. |
| Major Research Themes: | Faculty members employ a variety of state-of-the-art approaches to study topics ranging from the single molecule to the human brain. At the cellular and molecular levels investigators study the structure and function of ion channels and neurotransmitter receptors, as well as cellular properties and interactions between neurons. At complex organizational levels, investigators study hormonal control of gene expression in the regulation of sexually dimorphic behavior, neuronal cell death and the neurobiological basis of psychiatric illnesses. Behavioral and imaging (fMRI) studies in humans address the neurobiology of speech and language disorders, and pain mechanisms. |
| Other Information: | Beyond the Graduate School's minimum admission requirements, applicants should have a bachelor's degree with training in an appropriate major field. The program is particularly interested in candidates with interest and experience with research in the biomedical sciences. |
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| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Neural and Cognitive Sciences |
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Mailing Address: Ginny Maisch, Department of Psychology, CB#3270, Davie Hall, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Telephone: ((919) 962-2054 E-mail: cogsci@unc.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Minor |
| Other Information: | The Cognitive Science minor is interdisciplinary, but administratively housed and run within the Psychology Department. It consists of five disciplinary areas: Behavioral, Biological, Computational, Linguistic, and Philosophical. Cognitive Science at UNC also provides funding for summer research assistantships for dedicated undergraduates. |
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| University of Pennsylvania Institute for Research in Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Telephone: (215) 898-0357 E-mail: ircs-info@ircs.upenn.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | B.A., B.A.S., Dual Degree, Minor, Graduate Specialization |
| Faculty Profile: | The IRCS has seen considerable growth in both the number of researchers working at the Institute and the types of projects undertaken. IRCS currently has over 50 affiliated faculty from nine departments in the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science. |
| Major Research Themes: | Research at IRCS is structured under four inter-related scientific foci: Economic and Strategic Behavior and Computation; Language Acquisition, Structure, and Processing; Logic and Computation; and Perception and Action. |
| Other Information: | The institute offers four options for undergraduate study: a Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science, a Bachelor of Applied Science in Cognitive Science, a dual degree program in Computer and Cognitive Science, and an undergraduate minor. IRCS' programs directly impact such technologies as graphics and animation, robotics and computer vision, spoken and written natural language interfaces, machine translation, information extraction systems, software development, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and bioinformatics. |
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| University of Rochester Brain and Cognitive Sciences |
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Mailing Address: Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Meliora Hall, Box 270268, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0268, Telephone: (585) 275-1844 Fax: (585) 442-9216 E-mail: kcorser@bcs.rochester.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | B.A., B.S., Minor, Ph.D |
| Faculty Profile: | The Department is home to 17 core and associated faculty appointments and to closely associated faculty with primary appointments in other departments. Our faculty and their research programs are a major intellectual force, with national and international reputations in several fields. The department and its members have strong ties to other academic departments and centers, notably Computer Science, Linguistics, Music, Visual Science, and several neuroscience departments through the UR Medical Center. |
| Major Research Themes: | Research spans a large domain and straddles several disciplines in the behavioral, neural and computational sciences, but all our work is connected by the idea that to understand behavior we must study not only behavior but also the processes—both neural and computational—that underlie it. |
| Other Information: | The department has two aims: 1) to provide sound intellectual training that will benefit students in a wide range of career paths; and 2) to provide basic disciplinary qualification for students contemplating graduate or professional training in the behavioral and neural sciences. The curricula provide excellent routes to learn the logic and methods of scientific inquiry, how to reason critically, and provide unique opportunities to engage in real research problems at the frontiers of knowledge. Undergrad academic concentrations include Artificial Intelligence/Computation, Neurobiology, Perception and Action, and Psycholinguistics. |
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| University of Virginia Cognitive Science Program |
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Mailing Address: Rebecca Dill, Program Coordinator Telephone: (434) 982-3019 E-mail: rad5m@virginia.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major |
| Program Information: | Teaching faculty come primarily from the five core areas that are studied in the cognitive science program: Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics, Neuroscience, and Philosophy. |
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| Vassar College Cognitive Science Multidisciplinary Program |
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| Mailing Address: Cognitive Science, Vassar College, Box 729, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604 | |
| Degrees Offered: | Undergrad Major |
| Faculty Profile: | The program consists of 7 faculty with primary appointments in other Vassar College departments including psychology, philosophy, computer science, and biology. |
| Major Research Themes: | A sample of research topics includes the evolutionary bases of cognition and behavior, how biology and environment interact to affect human cognition, philosophy of mind, consciousness, emotions, robotics, human concept learning, and perception-coupling. |
| Other Information: | In 1982, Vassar College announced the creation of an undergraduate degree in Cognitive Science. The Cognitive Science Program provides a broad in-depth exposure to the exploration of mental phenomena. The theories and methods of all participating disciplines are represented in the courses offered by the Program, which models and exploits the truly integrative nature of the field. The program has access to many state-of-the-art research facilities including a human neurophysiology (EEG-recording) laboratory, the Wimpfheimer Nursery School, the Interdisciplinary Robotics Research Laboratory, the Scientific Visualization Computer Laboratory, and other laboratory research space in the Departments of Biology, Computer Science, and Psychology. |
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| Vanderbilt University Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Department of Psychology and Human Development, Peabody College #512, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203 Telephone: (615) 322-8141 Fax: (615) 343-9494 E-mail: sharone.k.hall@vanderbilt.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major in Cognitive Studies, Ph.D |
| Faculty Profile: | The program consists of 20 cognitive neuroscientists many of whom have particular strength in functional neuroimaging. Mathematical and computational modeling are also widely used as research tools. Several faculty members study the development of perceptual and cognitive capabilities in the individual, and how these abilities are influenced by social experiences and institutions. Students benefit from close research interactions with a number of faculty members in a number of departments, especially the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Computer Science. |
| Major Research Themes: | The Cognitive Science program faculty members examine fundamental problems in perception, attention, memory, causal reasoning, thinking, and problem solving. Specialties within these broad areas of research include: Perception (binocular vision, motion perception, perception of geometric structure, perceptual learning and expertise); Thinking and Reasoning (causal reasoning, analogical problem solving, decision making, numerical reasoning, thinking with diagrams); Concepts and Categories (categorization, conceptual structure, knowledge representation); Attention and Performance; Spatial Cognition (spatial memory and orientation); Learning and Memory (learning in real-world contexts, perceptual learning and expertise, explicit/implicit learning, attitudes and memory); and Text Comprehension |
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| Villanova University Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Dr. Charles L. Folk, Director; Cognitive Science Program, 252 Tolentine Hall, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085 Telephone: (610) 519-7464 E-mail: charles.folk@villanova.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major, Minor |
| Other Information: | The Cognitive Science Program at Villanova University offers a course of study related to intelligent systems with particular emphasis on the perspectives of cognitive psychology, computer science, philosophy and biology. An undergraduate concentration and an undergraduate minor are available to students in all of the undergraduate colleges at Villanova.. |
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| Wellesley College Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences |
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Mailing Address: Margery Lucas, Director, Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences; Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481-8203 Telephone: (781) 283-3008 E-mail: mlucas@wellesley.edu |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major |
| Faculty Profile: | Faculty in the Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences hold primary appointments in psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science. |
| Major Research Themes: | Research interests of Wellesley faculty include: Cognitive and neural basis of human memory capacities, Human vision, speech perception and production child language acquisition, bilingualism, spoken and written language, rationality, and philosophical issues in pragmatics of language. |
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| Carleton University Institute of Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Dr. Andrew Brook, Director; Institute of Cognitive Science, Dunton Tower, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario. K1S 5B6 E-mail: abrook@ccs.carleton.ca |
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| Degrees Offered: | B.A., Ph.D. |
| Faculty Profile: | The institute is home to over 20 faculty with interests in many areas of cognitive science. Faculty hold appointments in other departments including: Computer Science, Philosophy, Engineering, Psychology, and Linguistics. |
| Major Research Themes: | The research interests of Institute faculty are diverse. A sample of research projects includes: Intelligent Information Systems, Knowledge Representation, Computational Logic, Consciousness, Philosophy of mind and language, Natural language processing, Visual representations, Cognitive Semantics, General Linguistics, Sensory neuroscience, Neurolinguistics, Cognitive Modelling, and Human-computer interfaces. |
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| McGill University Cognitive Science |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major, Minor |
| Faculty Profile: | 15 faculty members are currently engaged in research and teaching in cognitive science at McGill University. Faculty hold appointments in several other departments including: Psychology, Linguistics, Computer Science, Neurology, Philosophy, Medicine, Education, and Engineering. |
| Major Research Themes: | Current research topics include: Cognition, Perception and organization of sound, Problem-solving, Vision, Natural language processing, Chomsky, Nativist semantics of natural languages, Cognitive neuroscience, and others. |
| Other Information: | McGill offers several opportunities to students interested in interdisciplinary study. At the undergraduate level, arts students are encouraged to take combinations of major and minor programs within various cognitive science disciplines, while science students can pursue a minor program in cognitive science and also have the opportunity to develop ad hoc major and honors programs. At the graduate level, various departments in cognitive science fields offer graduate programs that encourage interdisciplinary research. |
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| Queens University Cognitive Science |
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Contact Person: Dr. Roger Browse, School of Computing E-mail: browse@cs.queensu.ca |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major |
| Other Information: | The Cognitive Science Program is an Honours Subject of Specialization degree program, which specifies courses from a variety of disciplines including School of Computing, Psychology, Linguistics, and Philosophy. Over 60% of the graduates from the Queen's Cognitive Science Program have gone on to Ph.D. studies. |
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| Simon Fraser University Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Cognitive Science Program, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6 Telephone: (604) 268-7127 E-mail: info-cogsci@sfu.ca |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major |
| Faculty Profile: | The Cognitive Science Program at SFU is a leader in Cognitive Science education in Canada. The program draws from the diverse expertise of over 20 faculty members. These faculty members also hold appointments in several other departments at the university including: Computing Science, Philosophy, Linguistics, Kinesiology, Education, and Information Science. |
| Major Research Themes: | Current research laboratories and research groups within the Cognitive Science Program include: Center for Systems Science, Computational Vision lab, Human Motor Systems lab, Logic & Functional Programming Group, Natural Language Lab, and The McDonnell Project in Philosophy & the Neurosciences. |
| Other Information: | The Cognitive Science Program at Simon Fraser University sponsors several student organizations for students interested in cognitive science, including the CogSci Student Union and the Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science. |
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| The University of British Columbia Cognitive Systems |
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Contact Person: Eric Vatikiotis=Bateson, Program Director, Cognitive Systems, University of British Columbia E-mail: evb@interchange.ubc.ca |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major |
| Other Information: | The Cognitive Systems Program is a multi-disciplinary undergraduate program involving four departments: Computer Science, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology. It provides students with a thorough grounding in the principles and techniques used by intelligent systems (both natural and artificial) to interact with the world around them. The program emphasizes the study of existing systems (e.g., perception; linguistics), the design of new ones (e.g., machine vision; machine intelligence), and the design of interfaces between different forms of intelligent agent (e.g., human-computer interfaces). Cognitive Systems offers four degrees - two offered by the Faculty of Arts and two offered by the Faculty of Science. Students can pursue a B.A. in Cognition in Brain; a B.A. in Linguistics; a B.Sc. in Cognition and Brain; or a B.Sc. in Computational Intelligence and Design. |
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University of Toronto Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Cognitive Science Program, University of Toronto, 15 King's College Circle, Toronto M5S 3H7 Telephone: (416) 978-8746 E-mail: koatley@oise.utoronto.ca |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major |
| Major Research Themes: | Faculty in the department are engaged in research in many fields within cognitive science including: human emotion, vision sciences, developmental cognitive robotics, conceptual issues in developmental psychology, philosophical foundations of computation, thinking and reasoning, and higher cognitive processes. |
| Other Information: | The program currently offers an Honours B.S. in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, an Honours B.A. in Cognitive Science, and an Arts Major in Cognitive Science. Students can also pursue specialization degrees in CogSci-AI Specialist and the CogSci Specialist. |
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York University Cognitive Science |
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Mailing Address: Professor K. Andrews, Director, Department of Philsophy, S 444 Ross Building, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3 Telephone: (416) 736-5113 E-mail: andrewsk@yorku.ca |
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| Degrees Offered: | Undergraduate Major |
| Other Information: | The Departments of Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, and Computer Science offer a pattern of study that combines departmental specializations in Cognitive Science. The Cognitive Science Program is housed in the Department of Philosophy. Students in Cognitive Science may focus on a number of different areas (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Linguistic Development, Comparative Cognition, Philosophical Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction) and must arrange their program of study in consultation with the Program Coordinator or an advisor in the program. |
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