These projects involve collaborative research with investigators from Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Neuroscience. Topics include spatial learning in humans and robots, computational models of cortical processing, and structured stochastic networks for vision and language. The department's Ph.D. program offers degrees in both Cognitive Science and Linguistics. The program is small, with about 20 graduate students in total, and the atmosphere is friendly and informal. The high faculty-student ratio promotes ongoing interaction between students and faculty.
Graduate students learn to do research in an apprenticeship with one or more faculty members.
Collaboration is encouraged, and students often work with associated faculty in Psychology, Computer Science, Neuroscience, or Biology and take courses in a variety of other departments. The intellectual life of the department is lively and interactive. In addition to a departmental colloquium series, there are bag lunch groups on neural networks, vision, motor control, theoretical linguistics, neurolinguistics, and lexical access, as well as numerous research meetings. Other departments also offer colloquia and regular meetings on topics such as computer vision, visual neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and robotics. Contacting our Department The Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences is located at 190 Thayer Street, across from Brown University's Sciences Library.