Training Grant

CPS Training Program in Perception

The CPS training program draws students primarily from the Institute for Neuroscience and the Psychology Department. Students receive their degrees from their home departments; CPS provides specialized training in vision, and the program is designed to be easily integrated into either the Psychology or the Neuroscience curriculum. Students from other Departments (Computer Science, Engineering etc) can modify the program as required. 

Coursework

The goal is to achieve broad interdisciplinary training, with an emphasis on natural systems and computation.

Four Core Courses

1. PSY 380E Neural and Computational Basis of Vision – Huk, Hayhoe, Seidemann 

2. NEU 482T Principles of Neuroscience II - Seidemann 

3. PSY 394U Introduction to Sensory-Motor Systems - Hayhoe 

4. A Computational Neuroscience course, such as:

• NEU 395T Neural Computation - Huth
• NEU 385L Advanced Inferential Statistics - Cormack
• CS 391L Machine Learning - Ballard
• PSY 341K Introduction to Machine Learning - Nauhaus 

Other Requirements

1. Ethical and professional development. Goris, PSY194Q (also NEU 394U). 

In addition, trainees will attend the Lunch & Learn cooperative training grant session for training to enhance Rigor & Responsibility 

2. Neuroscience Bootcamp. This is an intensive 2-week immersivecourse before classes start in the fall that focuses on exposing students to the diverse set of tools in neuroscience.

3. CPS Colloquium Series and the CPS Brown Bag Series.

4. Elective seminar

• Principles of Neuroscience I NEU 482T - Brager
• Digital Neuroanatomy  PSY 394P - Pestilli
• Lab in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience  PSY341K  - Pestilli
• Computational Behavioral Science: PSY394 - Yu
• Applied Machine Learning PSY394 - Yu
• Development of Perception, Attention and Action: PSY394 - Yu/Hayhoe
• Functional Neuroanatomy. NEU 383C.  - Gonzalez-Lima
• Synaptic Physiology and Plasticity in the Central Nervous System. NEU 385L. - Johnston. 
• Programing and Data for Modern Neuroscience NEU 385L - Goldschen-Ohm
• Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience PSY 387S - Jessica Church-Lang
• Or alternative by approval. 

5. Students also regularly attend lab group meetings, and are encouraged to attend lab-meetings of other lab groups.

Teaching and requirements for advancing to candidacy are inherited from the student’s home department. 

People Associated with the Training Grant