Graduate Training Opportunities

M. T. Banich

Graduate Training Opportunities

The CU Department of Psychology has a strong nucleus of cognitive neuroscientists with major interests in learning, memory, attention, executive functions, and emotion. Training is available in a variety of cognitive neuroscience methods including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), event-related brain potentials (ERP), computational cognitive neuroscience, human neuropsychology, and animal behavioral neuroscience methods. Faculty include Marie Banich (fMRI, human neuropsychology, attention and executive functions), Tim Curran (ERP, learning and memory), Tiffany Ito (ERP, social neuroscience, emotion, stereotyping), Akira Miyake (working memory and executive functions), Randall O'Reilly (computational cognitive neuroscience, learning and memory, executive functions), and Jerry Rudy (behavioral neuroscience, learning & memory).

        Several other members of the CU Psychology faculty are interested in cognitive neuroscience approaches to a variety of topics: Edward Craighead (prevention of major depression), Reid Hastie (judgment and decision making, memory and cognition, social psychology), Kent Hutchinson (substance abuse and dependence), Steve Maier (behavioral neuroscience, adaptation to challenge), David Miklowitz (adult psychopathology), Linda Watkins (behavioral neuroscience, adaptation to challenge), and Mark Whisman (cognitive therapy and depression).
        The cognitive neuroscientists in the CU Psychology Department are complemented by an outstanding community of scientists with similar interests. The CU Psychology Department, with graduate programs in Cognitive Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, is consistently in the top 20 of the US News & World Report rankings. The Institute of Cognitive Science includes scientists from computer science, education, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. The Institute for Behavioral Genetics provides an unique resource for conducting and facilitating research on the genetic and environmental bases of individual differences in behavior. Associated hospitals provide the possibility of conducting research with patient populations. Our computational cognitive neuroscience laboratory particularly benefits from interactions from professors Mike Mozer (CU Computer Science) and Yuko Munakata (University of Denver (DU), Psychology).
        In addition to providing an exciting research environment and hosting the annual Neural Information Processing Systems conference, the greater Denver/Boulder area offers an exceptional quality of life. Spectacularly situated at the eastern edge of the Rockies, this area provides a wide variety of extraordinary outdoor activities, an average of 330 sunny days per year, and also affords a broad range of cultural activities.
        For more information, full lists of associated faculty, and instructions on applying to the graduate programs, see the following web sites:

CU Overview Web Page: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~mozer/resgroup.html

CU Psychology: http://psych-www.colorado.edu/

CU Institute of Cognitive Science: http://psych-www.colorado.edu/ics/home.html

CU Institute of Behavioral Genetics: http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/

CU Computer Science: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/

DU Psychology: http://www.du.edu/psychology/

One or more of the following faculty should be contacted for any further information.

Marie Banich, CU Psych

mbanich@psych.colorado.edu

http://psych.colorado.edu/~mbanich/lab/

Tim Curran, CU Psych

tcurran@psych.colorado.edu

http://psych.colorado.edu/~tcurran/

Tiffany Ito, CU Psych