Graduate training opportunity in Cognitive Science

[Ruth Tincoff]

Specific questions regarding the following posting should be addressed to:
Prof. Geraldine Legendre/legendre at cogsci.jhu.edu


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The Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University is
actively recruiting graduate students for a new Graduate Training
Program funded by the NSF IGERT (Integrated Graduate Education and
Research Training) Program:

Integrating formal and empirical methods in the cognitive science of
language.

Deadline for Applications: January 15, 2000

We offer a problem-centered training program, delimited not by boundaries
of an academic discipline, but by the demands of solving the following
problem: How does the brain (come to) achieve its function in the
domain of one particularly important cognitive function, language?
The computational framework of cognitive science allows the problem to be
formulated more precisely as follows: What are the representational
structures, processing algorithms, and  learning algorithms underlying
our linguistic abilities? How are the representations and algorithms
realized in the brain?

Trainees receive a comprehensive interdisciplinary education through
courses on the neurobiological, psychological, computational,
linguistic, and philosophical perspectives on cognition. Strong
methodological education, addressing both formal and empirical methods,
is provided. Trainees get hands-on experience with diverse research methods
by rotating through two research labs in the first two and a half years
and through advanced seminar research projects.

In addition to their stipends and tuition cost, trainees receive
considerable support for equipment, research, and travel.

NSF funding is restricted to US citizens and permanent residents. Some
funding for non-resident students is available from other sources.

For additional information please visit our departmental website at:
http://www.cogsci.jhu.edu
General questions and requests for application materials should be sent to:
inquire at mail.cog.jhu.edu
Specific questions should be addressed to:
Prof. Geraldine Legendre/legendre at cogsci.jhu.edu