Introduction

The Doctoral School in Cognitive and Brain Sciences engages students in an integrated program of research, instruction, and professional development in cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology (animal cognition, attention, brain asymmetry, perception, reasoning, language, memory, sensory processing), experimental physics, computer science, linguistics and cognitive neuropsychology. Students actively participate in international research projects, seminars, and conferences based in the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, which includes the Laboratories of Functional Neuroimaging (LNIF), Animal Cognition and Neuroscience (ACN Lab), the CIMeC Language, Interaction and Computation Lab (CLIC), the Experimental Psychology Laboratories, the Center for Neurocognitive Rehabilitation (CERiN), and the Computational Cognition Laboratories (CCL). The length of the program is three years. Students pursue one of two programmes: Cognitive Neuroscience or Language, Interaction and Computation.

The main areas of research being focused on at the CIMeC are:

• Perception and action
• Concepts
• Language
• Neuroimaging and modeling
• Social Neuroscience and Thinking

Program Objectives
The objectives of the Program are to develop the next generation of cognitive neuroscientists, equipped with the requisite multidisciplinary skills and expertise to push the frontiers of the mind/brain sciences and to succeed in the global research community. The Program is currently made up of two tracks Cognitive Neuroscience and Language, Interaction and Computation.