Center for Cognitive Sciences - Univ. of Minnesota

Training Program Overview

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Interdisciplinary Training Program in Cognitive Science

Program Faculty

The program includes the following governance:

Principal Investigator: Dan Kersten

Table 3: Steering Committee: The steering committee will work with the PI and has overall responsibility for the content of the program. The committee will have one grad student and one postdoc member.

Dan Kersten
Herb Pick
Bruce Overmier
Megan Gunnar
Jonathan Gewirtz
Dan Kersten
Paul van den Broek
Dave Stephens
Katie Thomas
Predoctoral Trainee

Grant Principal Investigator
Module Director: Perception and Action
Module Director: Learning and Memory
Module Co-Director: Emotion
Module Co-Director: Emotion
Computational Approach
Behavioral Approach
Neurobiological Approach
Developmental Approach
Student Representative

Dan Kersten, the grant PI, will consult members of the grant steering committee regarding program policies and administration. Individuals on the committee will have specific responsibilities for overseeing training in the three research areas, and ensuring interdisciplinary breadth in the four approaches.

Admissions Committee: Membership on this committee will rotate through the preceptors to ensure broad input. The committee will have faculty representatives from the 3 research areas and 4 approaches.

For more details about the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Cognitive Science, please click on the links at the left of this page. Questions may be addressed to Dan Kersten kersten@umn.edu.

Table B: Preceptors, Research Domains, and Approaches: The table below lists the 24 faculty in the three topical modules and four methodological approaches:

		Research Domains			Approaches
Faculty	Department	Perception Action	Learning Memory	Affect Emotion	Development	Behavior	Neurobiology	Computation
Georgopoulos	Neuroscience	√				√	√	√
Gewirtz	Psychology		√	√		√	√
Gini	Computer Science	√						√
Gunnar	Child Development		√	√	√	√	√
He	Psychology	√				√	√
Interrante	Computer Science	√						√
Kersten	Psychology	√				√	√	√
Konczak	Kinesiology	√	√		√	√	√	√
Luciana	Psychology		√	√	√	√	√
Marsolek	Psychology	√	√	√		√	√	√
Overmier	Psychology		√	√		√	√
Pardo	Psychiatry	√	√	√			√
Patrick	Psychology			√		√	√
Pick	Child Development	√			√	√
Redish	Neuroscience		√			√	√	√
Sapiro	Electrical & Computer Engineering	√						√
Schrater	Computer Science, Psychology	√	√			√	√	√
Stephens	Ecology, Evolution, & Behavior	√	√			√	√	√
Stoffregen	Kinesiology	√			√	√
Thomas, K.	Child Development		√	√	√	√	√
Thomas, M.	Neuroscience, Psychology			√		√	√
van den Broek	Educational Psychology		√		√	√	√	√
Wade	Kinesiology	√			√		√
Yonas	Child Development	√			√	√	√