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 Learn more about Cognitive science in the online encyclopedia.
One of the most universally affirmed ideas of cognitive science is the importance of the unconscious mind; many, if not most, important mental processes are considered to be inaccessible to the conscious, introspecting observer.
This perspective is one of the reasons the term "cognitive science" is not exactly coextensive with neuroscience, psychology, or some combination of the two.
Most in Cognitive science, however, presumably do not believe their field is the study of anything as certain as the knowledge sought by Plato.
http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/c/co/cognitive_science.html   (1144 words)

  
 Neuroscience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neuroscience is a field of study that deals with the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system, divided into the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord), and the peripheral nervous system, consisting of the myriad nerve pathways running throughout the body.
Some researchers believe that cognitive neuroscience provides a bottom-up approach to understanding the mind and consciousness that is complementary to, or may replace, the top-down approach of psychology.
The study of behavior and learning is also a division of neuroscience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience   (670 words)

  
 Doctoral Program in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience is the study of cognitive processes and their brain bases.
Behavioral Neuroscience is the study of the interrelations of the psychological and biological sciences using animal models.
Cognitive neuroscience research at USC includes studies of vision and attention; language acquisition, comprehension, production, and breakdown; laterality of cognitive processes; learning and memory; and decision making.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/psychology/cognitive.html   (1011 words)

  
 Pych 1055
Social-cognitive neuroscience is an emerging scientific discipline that attempts to integrate the theories, methods, and insights of social cognition and cognitive neuroscience.
In contrast, social cognition moves from the information-processing mechanism "upward," into the phenomenology of the person himself or herself, exploring the social, cognitive, and affective forces that motivate particular behaviors, and the consequences that follow from them.
Social cognition and cognitive neuroscience are independent academic disciplines that interact sparingly.
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/psy1055.htm   (1649 words)

  
 At the frontier of science
This group of pioneers includes social psychologists, neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, anthropologists, neurologists and sociologists who are collaborating in the hopes of understanding social behavior from the perspective of the brain.
As neuroscience, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience and social psychology have independently honed their methodologies, they started asking more complex questions and began to reconnect with their disciplinary cousins, he says.
They're self-proclaimed members of one of the fastest-growing research areas in psychology: social cognitive neuroscience.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/jan02/frontier.html   (2493 words)

  
 Cognitive Science & Neuroscience
Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human mind and mental life.
It is influenced by cognitive psychology and a variety of other disciplines, such as artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience, anthropology and philosophy.
Most cognitive science theories examine the behavioural and cognitive levels, and attempt to provide some account of how these might relate to the biological level.
http://www.nuim.ie/academic/psychology/cogsci.shtml   (707 words)

  
 Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Social cognitive neuroscience (SCN) is an interdisciplinary field that asks questions about topics traditionally of interest to social psychologists (such as emotion regulation, attitude change, or stereotyping) using methods traditionally employed by cognitive neuroscientists (such as functional brain imaging and neuropsychological patient analysis).
By integrating the theories and methods of its parent disciplines, SCN seeks to understand socioemotional phenomena in terms of interactions between the social (socioemotional cues, contexts, experiences, and behaviors), cognitive (information processing mechanisms), and neural (brain bases) levels of analysis (for discussion see Ochsner and Lieberman, 2001).
The preconferences bring together leading researchers conducting social cognitive neuroscience research investigating the neural systems supporting self perception, self-regulation, and person perception.
http://www.columbia.edu/~ko2132/home.htm   (299 words)

  
 The Philosophy of Neuroscience
A state-space semantics for cognitive representations is a species of a functional role semantics because the individuation of a particular state depends upon the relations obtaining between it and other states.
He specifies conditions on "revisionary" reductions from historical examples and suggests that these conditions are obtaining between folk psychology and cognitive neuroscience as the latter develops.
A common desideratum in this debate is a theory of cognitive representation consistent with a physical or naturalistic ontology.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neuroscience   (10131 words)

  
 SAGE Publications - Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews
Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews organizes, synthesizes, and expands your knowledge of all neuroscience research that addresses behavioral and cognitive functions, that is, the delineation of brain mechanisms that form the substrates of behavioral and mental processes.
If you are a neuroscientist, cognitive or behavioral scientist, psychologist, psychiatrist, psychiatric nurse, professor, or student in clinical practice, research, or academia, then Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews saves you time and effort by consolidating important findings from front-line research into useful summarized information through comprehensive reviews written by top scientists in the field.
Over the past two decades, the amount of basic and clinical research in neuroscience, especially in the cognitive and behavioral neurosciences, has outstripped the related journals’ capacity to digest and assimilate it.
http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=276   (234 words)

  
 Perception and Action Group
What defines cognitive neuroscience therefore is an emphasis on understanding high-level mental functions such as cognition and emotion coupled with scientific techniques which allow us to study how these functions are brought about within the brain.
These include: cognitive psychology; clinical neurology and neuropsychology; medical imaging; behavioural neuroscience; neurophysiology and neuroanatomy.
At Nottingham we have a strong research profile in Cognitive Neuroscience with several internationally renowned research teams working on a broad set of projects in Cognitive Neuroscience ranging from basic mechanisms in vision through to the executive control of goal-directed action.
http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/research/neuro   (325 words)

  
 ScienceWeek
Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that investigation of the neural correlates of behavior is not mandatory for the study of cognitive adaptations.
Part of the problem in research on cognition in animals has been the intrinsic difficulty in communicating with or testing animals, a difficulty that makes the outcome of a cognitive experiment heavily dependent on the ingenuity of the experimental approach.
One view, proposed by evolutionary psychologists, is based on the presumption that the demands on *hunter-gatherer life during the *Pleistocene epoch generated a vast array of evolutionary cognitive adaptations that determine current human cognition and behavior.
http://scienceweek.com/2003/sw030926.htm   (7244 words)

  
 The Program in Developmental Psychobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience
More research is needed, however, to learn about how biological factors, interacting with brain development, cognition, and environmental and situational influences, result in prosocial, empathetic behaviors or, alternatively, in social aggression and violent behaviors, particularly over time.
For example, CDBB-supported researchers are investigating gonadal hormone influences on human cognitive and social behavior.
Some of the work studies the structural plasticity of the brain and how endocrine-mediated behavioral development affects brain processes, such as memory, attention, affect, social cognition, and other higher-order cognitive functions.
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/councdb/sub6.htm   (3315 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Cognitive Neuroscience of Development (Studies in Developmental Psychology): Books
Understanding the development of the cerebral cortex is central to our understanding of psychological development, as immaturity of this structure is a major limiting factor of cognitive functioning in infants and children.
Provides an extensive overview of the methods used to study these questions, and the emerging interface between neurobiological and psychological perspectives in the study of typical and atypical cognitive development.
Subjects > Science > Behavioral Sciences > Cognitive Psychology
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/184169214X?v=glance   (693 words)

  
 MIT OpenCourseWare Brain and Cognitive Sciences
We are unique among neuroscience and cognitive science departments in our breadth, and in the scope of our ambition.
The Department was founded by Hans-Lukas Teuber in 1964 as a Department of Psychology, with the then-radical vision that the study of brain and mind are inseparable.
Central to our mission is the training of graduate students in the brain and cognitive sciences, and the education of undergraduate students.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Brain-and-Cognitive-Sciences   (605 words)

  
 Cognitive
Article discusses the first person and third person approaches to consciousness and cognition, the relationship between these two approaches, the coherence test, and why we think we are conscious.
Site provides 10 different tutorials covering the topics of brain and behavior, sensation and perception, states of consciousness, learning, motivation and emotion, cognition, intelligence, personality, and social psychology.
This site provides summaries of numerous theories found in behaviourism, cognition, and educational psychology.
http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/aupr/cognitive.shtml   (1430 words)

  
 Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab_papers
Lieberman, M. Principles, processes, and puzzles of social cognition: An introduction for the special issue on social cognitive neuroscience.
Lieberman, M. D., and Eisenberger, N. Conflict and habit: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to the self.
Lieberman, M. Reflective and Reflexive Judgment Processes: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach.
http://www.scn.ucla.edu/papers.html   (833 words)

  
 OUP: Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion: Lane
It explores what is known about cognitive processes in emotion at the same time it reviews the processes and anatomical structures involved in emotion, determining whether there is something about emotion and its neural substrates that requires they be studied as a separate domain.
This book, a member of the Series in Affective Science, is a unique interdisciplinary sequence of articles on the cognitive neuroscience of emotion by some of the most well-known researchers in the area.
Divided into four major focal points and presenting research that has been performed in the last decade, this book covers the process of emotion generation, the functions of amygdala, the conscious experience of emotion, and emotion regulation and dysregulation.
http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-511888-X   (390 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Cognitive neuroscience Article
Cognitive neuroscience overlaps with cognitive psychology, but whereas psychologists seek to understand the mind, cognitive neuroscience is concerned with understanding how the mental processes take place in the brain.
Methods include cognitive psychology, functional neuroimaging, neuropsychology and behavioral neuroscience.
Cognitive neuroscience is sometimes seen as part of a wider interdisciplinary study of cognition: cognitive science.
http://www.ipedia.com/cognitive_neuroscience.html   (207 words)

  
 DU Psychology Department Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Research
Members of our faculty use a variety of experimental and modeling techniques to investigate cognitive neuroscience issues in typical, special, and brain-injured populations.
The program includes course work in psychology, neuroscience, and biology, and participation in a wide range of research groups.
In addition, a number of research groups meet regularly, including the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, the Autism Research Group, and the Developmental Psychobiology Research Group.
http://www.du.edu/psychology/research/dcn.htm   (688 words)

  
 Graduate Program in Neuroscience
The Committee on Neuroscience (CN) comprises approximately 70 faculty members, in 21 departments distributed across the Colleges of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Engineering and Mines, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Science, as well as the Arizona Research Laboratories and the School of Health Related Professions.
Because of the breadth of expertise represented by the faculty, students have access to educational and research training opportunities in areas ranging through molecular, cellular, systems, behavioral, cognitive, theoretical, and clinical neuroscience.
Students participate in designing their own individually tailored programs that provide a thorough base of knowledge in the many facets of neuroscience as well as depth in chosen areas of specialization, and that enhance their abilities to think creatively and express themselves clearly.
http://www.neurobio.arizona.edu/cn   (305 words)

  
 SAGE Publications - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews
Over the past two decades the amount of basic and clinical research in neuroscience generally, and in that related to cognitive and behavioural issues specifically, has outstripped the related journals' capacity to digest and assimilate it.
Behavioural neuroscience focuses on brain mechanisms and how they give rise to behavioural functions in humans and animals.
SAGE Publications - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journal.aspx?pid=105481   (328 words)

  
 About the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
Research in our laboratory focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of empathy, imitation, and perspective taking, all essential aspects of human social communication which are involved in intersubjective transactions between self and others.
Our research should help to illuminate the neural and psychological bases of several unique features of the human mind, with broad implications for cognitive neuroscience and, in the long run, developmental psychology, clinical psychology, education, and even social policy.
Furthermore, we consider that these processes are fundamental to compassionate interaction and serve as the foundation of culture.
http://adam.cmbl.washington.edu   (600 words)

  
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The Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory is a joint research venture between the University of
http://www.umich.edu/~cogneuro/home.html   (67 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind: Books
Buy Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind with Connectionist Psychology today!
Subjects > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Psychology & Psychiatry > Cognition & Cognitive Psychology > General
A good introduction to the basics of neuroscience.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393977773   (583 words)

  
 Undergraduate Summer Workshop in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience
Course experience with cognitive science is desired, but not required.
Hear lectures from distinguished researchers in the fields of cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience
Is this possible because our perceptual and cognitive systems are tuned to the specific world that we evolved and developed in?
http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/summer2005   (488 words)

  
 Oxford University Press: Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging: Lars Nyberg
The goal of this book is to introduce this new discipline at a level that is useful to both professionals and students in cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, neuropsychology, neurology, and related areas.
This rapidly growing body of research has come to constitute a new discipline: cognitive neuroscience of aging.
We value your opinion and feedback about our website.
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/Developmental/~~/cHI9MTAmcGY9MCZzcz1wdWJkYXRlLmRlc2Mmc2Y9bmV3cmVjZW50JnNkPWFzYyZ2aWV3PXVzYSZjaT0wMTk1MTU2NzQ5   (211 words)

  
 The Cognitive Neurosciences III - The MIT Press
The third edition of The Cognitive Neurosciences continues to chart new directions in the study of the biologic underpinnings of complex cognition -- the relationship between the structural and physiological mechanisms of the nervous system and the psychological reality of the mind.
For the neuroscientist who wants to grasp cognitive functions and mechanisms, it offers a thoroughly up-to-date picture of the field."
"This very good and important book confirms the arrival of a major new scientific discipline: cognitive neuroscience."
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item?tid=10251&ttype=2   (396 words)

  
 Cornell Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
In the Cornell Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, we study the relationship between biological and experiential constraints on cognitive behavior.
The focus of our research is on the learning and processing of complex sequential structure, in particular as related to language.
Morten H. Christiansen and located in the Department of Psychology.
http://cnl.psych.cornell.edu   (232 words)

  
 The Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory for Language and Child Development
Other scientists in our Dana Arts and the Brain consortium are looking at many different performing art forms, but our lab focuses on the possible higher cognitive processing benefits of extensive training in dance and music for children and adults, especially in the domain of language processing.
Recently, we have also begun examining whether other kinds of early enhanced environments, such as extensive training in the arts also affords select cognitive benefits extending into adulthood, and whether bilingualism plus arts training leads to a double advantage.
We are now examining this question using both behavioral and neuroimaging measures (NIRS).
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lpetitto/lab   (558 words)

  
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The Department offers BSc pathways in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, and MSc in Integrative Neuroscience.
This lively cosmopolitan group promotes the role of Psychology in Medicine through a diverse programme of teaching, research and editorship.
This complements long standing commitments to teaching, innovation and research training in undergraduate medicine, and in BSc and doctoral programmes.
http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/neuro/npmdepts/psychmed/psmresearch/cnb   (214 words)

  
 CNS: Cognitive Neuroscience Society
The term cognitive neuroscience has now been with us for almost three decades, and identifies an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the nature of thought.
The Society also disseminates information regarding employment opportunities, training fellowships, research grants, and information on related scientific conferences in its monthly newsletter.
The Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) is committed to the development of mind and brain research aimed at investigating the psychological, computational, and neuroscientific bases of cognition.
http://www.cogneurosociety.org/content/welcome   (219 words)

  
 Neuroguide.com - Neuroscience Internet Guides
INFOGRAPHY about Behavioral Neuroscience (Sources recommended by a professor who specializes in the study of behavioral neuroscience)
Sites listing resources available on the World Wide Web concerning basic neuroscience, neurology and neurosurgery, psychiatry, psychology, cognitive science, and/or artifical intelligence are included in the pages of this section.
International Brain Research Organization’s guide to giving a talk, teaching a course, writing a grant, writing a paper, and more
http://www.neuroguide.com/neurogui_1.html   (362 words)

  
 Cognitive Neuroscience Section
The major goal of the Cognitive Neuroscience Section is to characterize the forms of knowledge represented in the human prefrontal cortex.
In an effort to understand some of the neuroplastic properties of local circumscribed brain sectors, we have been examining how brain sector topography changes in response to normal skill learning.
Functional Neuroimaging of Social Cognitive and Emotional Processing: Technical and Cognitive Issues 03-N-0195
http://intra.ninds.nih.gov/Lab.asp?Org_ID=83   (627 words)

  
 Rebecca Saxe: Reading Your Mind
Knowing about the behavioral relationship between looking or seeing and acting is undeniably an important prerequisite of the ability to reason about other minds, a critical part of stage one, the knowledge about minds that two-year-olds already have.
Our ability to recognize when other people have false beliefs, and to consider these beliefs in explaining their behavior, provides a window on basic features of the human mind.
Consider what cognitive scientists call the false-belief task.
http://bostonreview.net/BR29.1/saxe.html   (3880 words)

  
 Cognitive Neuroscience Home Page
Determining relationships between brain anatomy, neurophysiology and cognitive signal processing.
The Reading assignments will also assist the acquisition of the basics of human neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, as well as some of the major techniques of Cognitive Neuroscience, including the following:
THEME COURSE - Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience 2004
http://cogns.northwestern.edu/topics_cn03.htm   (409 words)

  
 Consciousness and Neuroscience
We think that most of the philosophical aspects of the problem should, for the moment, be left on one side, and that the time to start the scientific attack is now.
We can state bluntly the major question that neuroscience must first answer: It is probable that at any moment some active neuronal processes in your head correlate with consciousness, while others do not; what is the difference between them?
Neuroscientists know only a few of the basics of neuroscience, such as the nature of the action potential and the chemical nature of most synapses.
http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~koch/crick-koch-cc-97.html   (9811 words)

  
 White Matter in Cognitive Neuroscience: Advances in Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Its Applications Volume 1064 Annals of ...
Neuroscience of the Mind on the Centennial of Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology
These reports represent the interdisciplinary approach taken at the workshop to the refinement of emerging MR DTI techniques specifically for the purposes of analyzing white matter networks noninvasively.
Researchers from diverse research communities in cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, MR-diffusion tensor imaging, and algorithm development have contributed articles that explore the potential for diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to measure and model white matter tracts in the human brain.
http://www.nyas.org/annals/detail.asp?annalID=828   (313 words)

  
 Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory Welcome
The Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory is a collaborative effort based in the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia.
Brett Clementz and Jennifer McDowell, members of the laboratory are engaged in a variety of experimental and theoretical inquires within the realm of cognitive neuroscience.
Research is conducted using sophisticated brain imaging technologies, such as high-density EEG, whole-head MEG, and fMRI.
http://www.uga.edu/psychology/ccnl   (163 words)

  
 CCN
The two-week course will examine how information about brain structure and function interacts with issues in cognitive sciences and how approaches in cognitive science apply to other forms of neuroscience research.
There are plenty of Cognitive Neuroscience-related resources out there.
A series of lectures at Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall featuring the world's preeminent authorities on brain and behavior.
http://ccn.dartmouth.edu   (158 words)

  
 Cognitive Neuroscience
This research area includes our Center for Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention, one of eight supported by the James S. McDonnell Foundation and the Pew Memorial Trusts.
And, in conjunction with the emotion study group, we study brain mechanisms underlying affective information processing.
Research in Cognitive Neuroscience involves seeking the neural systems related to cognitive processes and encompasses both the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences and the Institute of Neuroscience.
http://www.neuro.uoregon.edu/ionmain/htdocs/grdbroch/cogn.html   (136 words)

  
 Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Trends in Cognitive Sciences provides concise reviews, summaries, opinions and discussion of the most exciting current research in all aspects of cognition, the mind and the brain.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences features succinct, lively, and up-to-date Review and Opinion articles and discussion of the latest developments in the primary literature in Research Focus articles.
Internationally renowned scientists from cognitive neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, social cognition, artificial intelligence, neural computation, and philosophy regularly contribute to the journal.
http://www.trends.com/tics   (282 words)

  
 The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Neuroscience (Biosciences)
Division of Neuroscience, John Curtin School of Medical Research
San Diego Sleep and Rhythms RATMAN for circadian rhythm analysis and ACQS5 for EEG sleep staging
Center for Neural Processes in Cognition (joint with Univ. of Pittsburgh, q.v.
http://neuro.med.cornell.edu   (925 words)

  
 Welcome to the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Our members, who are engaged in research that is related to the general areas of perception and cognition, are connected to a vast network of cutting-edge information.
Eric R. Kandel, M.D. We at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society are committed to the development of mind and brain research aimed at investigating the psychological, computational, and neuroscientific bases of perception and cognition.
This three-day program of speakers, panels, and posters addresses various aspects of cognitive neuroscience education and research.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cns/cns.html   (227 words)

  
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The field of cognitive neuroscience has flourished due to advances using multiple methodologies such as anatomy, physiology, imaging, and behavior.
This meeting focuses on research at the intersection of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and computational modeling, where neuroscience-based computational models are used to simulate and understand cognitive functions such as perception, attention, learning and memory, language, and higher-level cognitive functions.
The emerging field of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) is ideally suited to help fill this need through the use of mathematical analysis and explicit computational models that bridge the gap between biological mechanisms and cognitive function.
http://www.ccnconference.org   (222 words)

  
 Cognitive Neuroscience
Milner, B. and Petrides, M. Behavioral effects of frontal-lobe lesions in man. Trends in Neuroscience, November.
and Nyberg, L. Imaging Cognition: An empirical review of
We will consider a range of cognitive functions, primarily from the perspective of neuroscience and draw on such related disciplines as cognitive psychology and computational analysis as needed.
http://www.trincoll.edu/~raskin/cneuro.html   (804 words)

  
 Cognitive Neuroscience Resources on the Internet: Homepages (CNBC)
Texas AandM, Department of Psychology including Behavioral Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology
Indiana University Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition
University of Sussex School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/CNBC/other/homepages.html   (566 words)

  
 Oxford Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience
The Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre supporting and promoting interaction between research groups in aspects of basic and clinical neuroscience across a large number of university departments in Oxford and elsewhere.
Welcome to the home page of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford.
2005 Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience - Report
http://www.cogneuro.ox.ac.uk   (64 words)

  
 Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
The ICN fosters an interdisciplinary approach to these issues, by bringing together researchers from: the Psychology Department; the Institute of Neurology; the Anatomy Department; and the Human Communication Department; plus by using a wide range of methods.
The ICN has over 100 staff, including a vibrant body of postdoctoral and postgraduate (PhD) researchers, plus clinical fellows, organised into distinct research groups.
It runs regular seminars, receives many grants for its research, and produces numerous scientific publications.
http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk   (220 words)

  
 Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Current CCN research addresses many of the central questions about the mind and brain, from the perception of the visual world, through attention, learning and semantic memory, to emotion and the planning of complex action.
Penn's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary community dedicated to understanding the neural bases of human thought.
This web site will introduce you to the people, events, and educational programs of the CCN.
http://www.ccn.upenn.edu   (95 words)

  
 Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition: Other Training
In addition to the CNBC's graduate training program, there are extensive opportunities for post-doctoral and undergraduate research training within the CNBC.
This program is open to graduate and post-doctoral Ph.D. students at both the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon, and provides a series of Saturday workshops covering the full range of ethical and career development issues faced by individuals who are preparing themselves for careers in research.
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition: Other Training
http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/other/other-neuro.html   (138 words)

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