Ctr for Research in Language (UCSD) predoctoral fellowship announcement
Jeff Elman
elman at crl.ucsd.edu
Wed Jan 6 23:07:42 UTC 1999
The Center for Research in Language
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRE-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR 1999-2003
The Center for Research in Language at the University of California,
San Diego has pre-doctoral training fellowships available for UCSD
graduate students in good standing. Prospective graduate students who
are applying for admission to the doctoral program in the departments
of Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Psychology, or the Joint Doctoral
Program in Language and Communicative Disorders are also eligible. Six
predoctoral fellowships are awarded per year starting in 1998-99 and
extending through June 30, 2003.
The fellowships are supported by the National Institutes of Health
(NIDCD), and provide an annual stipend of $11,748 plus payment of fees
and registration. In addition, some funding is available for related
research expenses and travel.
The program provides interdisciplinary training in:
(1) psycholinguistics, including language processing in adults and language
development in children;
(2) communication disorders, including childhood language disorders and
adult aphasia;
(3) neural imaging studies of language, including Event Related Potentials and
functional Magnetic Resonance; and
(4) neural network models of language learning and processing.
Candidates are expected to work in at least one of these four areas, and
preference will be given to candidates with background and interests
involving more than one area.
Grant conditions require that candidates be citizens or permanent
residents of the U.S. The fellowship, if accepted, is for a
twelve-month period. If recipient is unable to complete the full term,
fellowship may have to be returned.
The fellowships are traditionally awarded to students enrolled in
the Department of Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Psychology, or
the Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders.
Candidates from other departments working in these areas are welcome
to submit an application.
Prospective graduate students who are applying for admission to the
Ph.D. program in one of the above departments (matriculating in the Fall
1999 quarter) are encouraged to apply. In this case students should
simultaneously (a) indicate to their prospective home department
their interest in being considered for this fellowship, and (b)
submit a brief application to the Center for Research in Language,
containing the following information:
(1) Statement of interest
(2) Curriculum Vita
(3) College transcripts from the previous two years (copies are fine)
(4) Three letters of recommendations
Send applications to the following by FEBRUARY 1 to be considered for
the following year:
CRL PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP COORDINATOR
Center for Research in Language 0526
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California 92093-0526
(619) 534-2536
Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply.
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Description of the Program
(1) Predoctoral candidates will apply for admission to UCSD through
one of the four home departments (Cognitive Science, Linguistics,
Psychology, the JDP), and they will meet all requirements for doctoral
study in that department.
(2) The candidate's major area of specialization will be determined as follows:
a. the research area selected for the dissertation topic
b. the weekly research meeting group selected for regular attendance in all
years of residence (from the list of research meeting groups in Table 5)
c. 3 - 5 courses, to be determined jointly by the student and the program
faculty (from the list of courses in Table 6).
(3) The candidate's minor area of specialization will be determined as follows:
a. one 3 - 6 month rotation in a laboratory associated with a research
component other than
the one in which the student carries out his/her dissertation research
b. regular attendance in weekly laboratory meetings for at least one year of
residence (from Table 5)
c. 2 - 3 courses, to be determined jointly by the student and the program
faculty (from Table 6)
(4) The candidate's doctoral committee will include at least one member
of the Executive Committee (although that member need not be the thesis
chair); the student's advisor and chair of his/her doctoral committee
must be a member of the larger list of faculty associated with the
training program (see Table 2).
(5) In consultation with their doctoral committees, students will be
urged to take courses outside of their home department, with an emphasis
on methods that are typically not available within that department.
For example, students in Linguistics will be urged to demonstrate
competence in statistics. Students in Cognitive Science and Psychology
will be urged to take basic coursework in phonology, syntax, morphology
and/or semantics. Students in Psychology and Linguistics will be
encouraged to enroll in at least one course related to computational
linguistics. Table 8a presents a series of hypothetical examples of the
kind of training program that individual pre-doctoral students might
put together under these constraints, within each of the four programs.
TABLE 2. PARTICIPATING FACULTY
Farrell Ackerman (Linguistics, CRL) Syntactic theory, morphology, first
language acquisition
Chris Barker (Linguistics, CRL) Semantics, language processing,
computational linguistics
Elizabeth Bates (Cognitive Science, Psychology, PCND, CRL)
Psycholinguistics, language acquisition and language disorders in
children, aphasia, bilingualism, cross-linguistic comparisons
Ursula Bellugi (Salk Institute; Psychology; PCND, CRL) Domains of higher
cortical function – language, spatial cognition – and their representation
in the brain
Lilly li-Rong Cheng (Commun. Disorders) Cross-cultural and
cross-linguistic research, communication disorders
Soonja Choi (Linguistics, Oriental Languages) Cross-linguistic studies
of language acquisition
Gary Cottrell (Computer Science, CRL) Connectionist models of
psychological processes, recurrent neural networks
Eric Courchesne (Neurosciences) Autism, brain development assessed
through ERP and MRI
Jeffrey Elman (Cognitive Science, Linguistics, CRL) Language
processing, parallel distributed processing, computational linguistics,
psycholinguistics
Karen Emmorey (Salk Institute) Psycholinguistic studies of American Sign
Language
Gilles Fauconnier (Cognitive Science, CRL) Language and cognition,
semantic theory, pragmatics and meaning construction
Victor Ferreira (Psychology, CRL) Language production, psycholinguistics
Vera Gutierrez-Clellen (Commun. Disorders) Bilingual language acquisition,
literacy in normal and language learning disabilities
Edwin Hutchins (Cognitive Science) Connection, models of cognitive development
Kathleen Hubbard (Linguistics) Experimental phonetics, phonology
Robert Kluender (Linguistics, CRL) Interaction between lexico-semantic
and structural properties, second-language acquisition
Mark Kritchevsky (Neurosciences) Behavioral neurology
Marta Kutas (Cognitive Science, CRL) Brain and behavioral processes of
cognition, with special emphasis on electrophysiology of meaning
Ron Langacker (Linguistics, CRL) Semantics, grammatical theory,
Uto-Aztecan languages
Debra Mills (CRL) Developmental studies of language, cognition and affect
using electrophysiology and behavioral methods
Javier Movellan (Cognitive Science, CRL) Neural networks, pattern
recognition, psychophysics
Carol Padden (Communication, CRL) Interaction of culture and language,
development of language and orthographic systems in younger children,
sign language
Maria Polinksy (Linguistics, CRL) Language universals, syntax-semantics
interface, typology, field methods
Judy Reilly (Psychology, PCND) Interface of linguistic and affective
facial expression in normal deaf infants, and language and affect in
communicatively disordered populations
Walt Savitch (Computer Science, CRL) Mathematical and computational
linguistics, formal models of reasoning
Terry Sejnowski (Biology, Cognitive Science, Salk Institute) Computational
neuroscience; the representation, transformation, and storage on
information in the nervous system
Marty Sereno (Cognitive Science, CRL) Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology
of visual cortex, models of motion processing, cortical areas in humans
Lewis Shapiro (Commun Disorders) Lexical, syntactic, cognitive processing
in normal and neurologically impaired populations
David Swinney (Psychology, CRL) Temporal properties of normal and abnormal
language processing using behavioral models
Donna Thal (Commun. Disorders, PCND, CRL) Relationships between language
and cognition, predictors of language impairment
Doris Trauner (Pediatrics, Neurosciences, PCND, CRL) Brain development
and cognition in normals, infants and children with focal brain injury;
affective prosody, children with cystinosis
Beverly Wulfeck (Commun. Disorders, Pediatrics, PCND, CRL) Language
development and language disorders in children; language processing
in aphasia
Table 5. Regular Laboratory Meetings Associated with the Four Components
of the Training Program
1. CRL seminar series
2. Electrophysiology laboratory
3. Development laboratory
4. Psycholinguistics laboratory
5. Project in cognitive and neural development
6. Bilingual language studies lab
7. Development psycholinguistics lab
8. Language processes lab
9. Neuropsychology lab
10. fMRI Users group
11. International Aphasia Project
Table 6. List of Graduate Courses (see UCSD/SDSU catalog for descriptions)
Cognitive Science: 200A-C, 201A-F, 204A-B, 213, 241, 251, 260, 272, 273, 279
Linguistics: 210, 211, 214, 221, 225, 230, 248, 249, 270, 272
Psychology: 210A-B, 202, 203, 215, 218A-B, 222, 225, 227, 230, 235, 236, 242A-C, 244, 245. 252
Computer Science and Engineering: 278A-B, 281P, 281W
Neurosciences: 243, 246, 252, 253, 263, 268, 274, 277
Communicative Disorders (SDSU) CD790, CD791, CD792, CD793, CD794
Table 8a. Sample Program for Four Different Pre-doctoral Students
1)
Home Department: COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Major Area: Electrophysiological studies of language
Cog Sci 272 Topics in theoretical neurobiology
Psych 203 Electrophysiology of cognition
Psych 222 Physiological psychology
Psych 272 Language and the brain
Lab: Electrophysiology lab (all years of residence)
Minor Area: Psycholinguistics
Ling 221 Introductory syntax
Ling 225 Topics in syntax
Psych 244 Special topics in psycholinguistics
Lab: Psycholinguistics (for two quarters)
Integrative courses: Cog Sci 200 Topics in cognitive science
Cog Sci 262 Topics in cognitive neuroscience
2)
Home Department: PSYCHOLOGY
Major Area: Communicative Disorders
Cog Sci 251 Aphasia
Ling 272 Language and the brain
Neuros 274 Neurobiology of cognitive development and disorders
Psych 222 Brain functions
Psych 230 Brain, cognition and development
Lab: Project in Cognitive and Neural Development Lab
(all years in residence)
Minor Area: Neural Networks
Cog Sci 291F Parallel distributed models of cognition
CSE 281P Connectionist models
Psych 244 Special topics in psycholinguistics
Lab: PDPNLP (for 2 quarters)
Integrative Courses: Cog Sci 200 Topics in cognitive science
Psych 242 Research topics in developmental psychology
Cog Sci 241 Ethics and survival skills
3)
Home Department: LINGUISTICS
Major Area: Psycholinguistics
Ling 210 Phonetics
Ling 211 Introductory phonology
Ling 270 Psycholinguistics
Psych 291AB Quantitative methods
Psych 225 Development of speech perception
Lab: Psycholinguistics lab (all years of residence)
Minor Area: Electrophysiological studies/ Neural imaging
Cog Sci 279 Electrophysiology of cognition
Neurosci 252 Information processing in man
Lab: PDPNLP (for 2 quarters); fMRI users group (two quarters)
Integrative Courses: Cog Sci 200 Topics in cognitive science
Psych 242 Research topics in developmental psychology
Cog Sci 241 Ethics and survival skills
4)
Home Department JDP LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS
Major Area: Communicative Disorders/Psycholinguistics
Psych 210AB Quantitative methods
Psych 218B Cognitive psychology
Psych 215 Language acquisition
CD 790 Foundations of language science
CD 791 Foundations of multilingualism from the perspective of comm. dis.
CD 792 Disorders of language and cognition – adults
CD 793 Disorders of language and cognition – children
CD794 Disorders of language in multilingual populations
Ling 272 Language and the brain
Lab: Neuropsychology lab, Psycholinguistics lab, Language Processes lab (3
rotations in first 3 years)
Minor Area: Neural Imaging
Cog Sci 201A Neuroanatomy/Neurophysiology
Cog Sci 279 Electrophysiology of cognition
Neuros 253 Clinical neuroanatomy lab
Lab: Electrophysiology lab (2 quarters); fMRI users group (2 quarters)
Integrative Courses: Cog Sci 200 Topics in cognitive science
Psych 242 Research topics in developmental psychology
Cog Sci 241 Ethics and survival skills
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