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Students in the CPCN area are encouraged to acquire a broad background in
the cognitive and perceptual sciences as well as mastery of one or more
specialty areas. In addition to developing an individualized research plan
with a faculty advisor, students in the CPCN area are required to take a
modest set of core content courses including statistics, and a selection
from courses in memory, perception, cognitive neuroscience, cognition and
neuroanatomy. Students may also select from courses in fMRI methods and
modeling, EEG, matlab programming, multivariate statistics and computational
neuroscience. These methods courses in the CPCN area provide rigorous training
in the rapidly growing field of cognitive neuroscience. In addition to their
content and methods courses, there are a variety of seminars, including
the weekly CPCN
Seminar. The seminar series attracts many prominent cognitive and perceptual
scientists to the campus and also offers opportunities for students and
faculty within the program to present their current work. Students may also
choose to enhance and broaden their training through interdisciplinary emphases
in Cognitive
Science and Quantitative
Methods.
Students also have access to the neuroimaging facilities in the UCSB
Brain Imaging Center, which is located in the basement of the new addition
to the Psychology Building. The main research tool of this center is a Siemens
3 Tesla MRI scanner that is fully dedicated to research. Other facilities
on campus that enrich the program include the Sage
Center for the Study of the Mind, the Neuroscience
Research Institute and the Institute
for Collaborative Biotechnologies.
Recognizing that prospective students have many choices when deciding
which graduate program to attend, the CPCN faculty has carefully designed
a program with the goal of preparing students to be leading researchers
and educators. What makes the CPCN program at UCSB unique and different
from other programs around the country?
- A unique intellectual environment in which students get first hand
exposure and personal interaction to the most world prominent scientists
visiting our campus through the speaker and fellow Sage Center (pictures
of our students enjoying coffee with our visitors)
- Access to state of the art research tools in a highly collaborative
environment. A unique aspect of the CPCN program is the use of many
state of the art research tools including brain
imaging, high-density EEG, virtual
reality, eye and limb tracker technology, and innovative mathematical/computer
modeling.
- The study of theoretical issues and real world problems in cognition,
perception and action. The range of real world problems that CPCN faculty
study is broad with implications in the fields of education, medicine,
human factors, and law. Topics include false memory, the study of the
use of multimedia in learning, human/computer interaction, spatial cognition
in surgical skills, the perception of medical images, and neuro-metrics.
- Emphasis on preparing graduate students for successful academic careers
in research and teaching as well as opportunities in the private sector.
- Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research groups in CPCN include the
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, and the Cognition and Technology
Research Group. In addition, members of CPCN are active participants
of UCSB interdisciplinary programs including the Cognitive Science Program,
the Center for Information Technology, the Institute for Collaborative
Biotechnologies
We encourage you to contact a faculty member for any of your questions!
Deadline for applications for CPCN: December 1, 2008
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