8 January: fyi -- summer school

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Fourth Annual Undergraduate Summer Workshop in
Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience

University of Pennsylvania
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
June 4 to 22, 2001

Please apply on-line at
http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/summer2001
The deadline for receipt of applications is February 1, 2001


Each year, the cognitive science community at the University of
Pennsylvania brings together the best and brightest undergraduate
students from around the world to learn about the growing fields of
cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience.

The workshop is held on Penn's campus, at the Institute for Research in
Cognitive Science, site of the National Science Foundation's Science and
Technology Center for Research in Cognitive Science, with the cooperation of
the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.

As a workshop participant, you can:
* Hear lectures from distinguished researchers in the fields of cognitive
science and cognitive neuroscience
* Participate in labs and lab tours involving some of the latest
technologies and research methods
* Present your own work through our Student Poster Session
* Participate in panel discussions on the future of cognitive science
and cognitive neuroscience

Labs and Tours:
* Cognitive Neurology Stroke Lab
* Event-Related Potential (ERP) Lab
* Free-Head Eye Tracking Lab in Language Processing
* Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Lab
* Graphics, Animation, and Human Modeling Lab
* Language Corpus Analysis Lab
* Language Development Lab

Lecture Topics:
* Primate Communication
* Real-Time Language Processing
* Language Development
* Learning, Memory and Attention
* Working Memory and Executive Function
* Human and Machine Vision
* Computational Modeling of Language and Cognition
* Logic and Computation
* Statistical Natural Language Processing

Participating CCN and IRCS faculty include:

Ted Abel, Ben Backus, Norman Badler, Mark Jung Beeman, Anjan
Chatterjee, Dorothy Cheney, Robin Clark, H. Branch Coslett, David
Embick, Martha Farah, Lila Gleitman, Guila Glosser, Aravind Joshi,
John Kounios, Mark Liberman, Mitch Marcus, Dimitris Metaxas, Martha
Palmer, Ellen Prince, Maribel Romero, P. Thomas Schoenemann, Robert
Seyfarth, Mark Steedman, Sharon Thompson-Schill, John Trueswell,
Bonnie Webber, and Scott Weinstein.

Admitted participants will be provided with a travel stipend,
accommodations at the Penn dormitories and a food plan through the dining
services. There are no tuition costs for participants.

You should apply if:

* you have a strong interest or curiosity about cognitive science
and/or cognitive neuroscience, and

* you are currently an enrolled undergraduate at any university or
college.

*** Course experience with cognitive science and/or cognitive neuroscience
is desired, but not required. ***

To apply, please complete our on-line application form at
http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/summer2001
Updates about this workshop will appear on this webpage as well.

Questions? Please see our website or send e-mail to
summer_workshop@ircs.upenn.edu

Mailing Address for Workshop Correspondence:
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
Attn: Summer Workshop
Suite 400A, 3401 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
USA

For more information about IRCS and CCN, visit our websites at
http://www.ircs.upenn.edu and http://www.ccn.upenn.edu

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