23.5145, Support: Cognitive Science, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics: PhD Student, University of Connecticut, USA

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Subject: 23.5145, Support: Cognitive Science, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics: PhD Student, University of Connecticut, USA

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Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:28:06
From: James Magnuson [james.magnuson at uconn.edu]
Subject: Cognitive Science, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics: PhD Student, University of Connecticut, USA

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 Institution/Organization: University of Connecticut 
Department: Cognitive Science 
Web Address: http://igert.cogsci.uconn.edu 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics 
 

Description:

Language Plasticity: Genes, Brain, Cognition, Computation
NSF-IGERT Ph.D. Fellowships at the University of Connecticut

http://igert.cogsci.uconn.edu

We are pleased to announce a new graduate training program at the University
of Connecticut, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program. We
will admit 27 IGERT Fellows over the next 4 years. IGERT Fellows receive five
years of full funding, including two years of NSF IGERT stipend ($30,000 per
year) and three years at normal departmental levels. Trainees enter through
any of 7 Ph.D. programs: Linguistics; Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences;
Physiology & Neurobiology; and 4 programs in Psychology: Behavioral
Neuroscience, Clinical, Developmental, and Language & Cognition. (Note that
NSF stipends are available only to U.S. citizens and permanent residents, but
others can apply to the program and can receive full funding at standard
departmental levels.) Trainees complete normal home department specialist
training, but also a common core of 'Foundations' courses that provide them
background in the fundamental ideas, methods, and terminology in each
participating domain sufficient to allow them to work in collaborative,
interdisciplinary teams. Course-based work is integrated with hands-on access
to and training with cutting edge tools for neuroscience, cognitive
neuroscience, genetics, and computational modeling.
 
Why are we bringing together these areas in our training program? Unifying
cognitive and biological approaches will allow language development,
processing, and disorders (acquired and developmental) throughout the lifespan
to be studied in the context of complex, dynamic interactions of genes,
environment, neurobiology, cognition, and culture, affording new insights into
the nature of language. Today, cognitive and biological fields are weakly
linked. Cognitive domains coupled with Behavior Genetics provide correlational
clues to possible genetic bases for language disorders; causality can begin to
be assessed with true experiments with gene knock-out or knock-down animal
models using methods of Behavioral and Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics
(focusing on sensory and cognitive traits associated with language).
Currently, such research focuses primarily on language disorders, and there is
little transfer back from biological to cognitive domains. Our training
program prepares a new generation of scientists not just to accelerate
transfer between cognitive and biological domains, but to unify them, and
realize the potential for biological approaches to inform not just the bases
of disorders, but the bases of mechanisms supporting language plasticity and
cognitive and computational theories of language development and processing
more generally.

Opportunities. In addition to NSF Fellowships, funds are available to support
research costs, international internships with partners in Europe and Asia,
and trainees have access to leading scientists and state-of-the-art
laboratories.
 
Diversity. We share NSF's mission to increase participation in science by
underrepresented groups. UConn and our IGERT provide mentoring and support
systems for all Ph.D. students, with particular attention to the concerns of
underrepresented groups. Women, minorities, and Deaf individuals are
especially encouraged to apply.
 
http://igert.cogsci.uconn.edu
http://linguistics.uconn.edu
 

Application Deadline: 15-Jan-2013 

Web Address for Applications: http://igert.cogsci.uconn.edu 

Contact Information: 
	James Magnuson 
james.magnuson at uconn.edu 
Phone:8604863525 
Fax:8604863525  





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