The Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science

Rejected message: sent to koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu by OFFICE(a)COGS.NBU.ACAD.BG follows. Reason for rejection: sender not subscribed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <fontfamily><param>Courier_New</param><bigger>The Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science at New Bulgarian University, Sofia Announces a competition for scholarships for a two-year study period (for a M.Sc. degree) or a four-year study period (for a PhD degree) at the Graduate Program in Cognitive Science. The program is taught in English and is highly interdisciplinary. It covers psychology, cognitive modeling, neurosciences, linguistics, and philosophy and requires interdisciplinary research to be done. Main areas of research are human thinking (analogical reasoning, problem solving, and decision-making, context effects), memory (explicit and implicit, dynamic representation), visual perception (perception of shape, orientation, and movement), language (language processing in adults, children, and aphasics, cognitive linguistics). Methodology used includes building up a general cognitive architecture, cognitive modeling (integration of symbolic and connectionist approaches), psychophysical, psychological, neuropsychological, and simulation experiments. Deadline for application: April 30th, 1999 Study period starts on October 1st, 1999 Send your application form by e-mail as soon as possible. More detailed information can be found at: http://www.nbu.acad.bg/staff/cogs/center/index.html Documents required for application to the Cognitive Science Program: 1. Application form 2. Bachelor degree diploma or equivalent 3. Academic transcript 4. Two references 5. TOEFL, Cambridge Certificate, or equivalent 6. Statement of purpose 7. Research proposal Your application may have better chances if accompanied by the following documents: 8. List of publications and copies of some of them 9. GRE score Co-Directors of the Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science: Elizabeth Bates (UCSD, USA) and Boicho Kokinov (NBU, Bulgaria) International Advisory Board Elizabeth BATES (University of California at San Diego, USA) Amedeo CAPPELLI (Institute of Computational Linguistics, CNR, Pisa, Italy) Cristiano CASTELFRANCHI (Institute of Psychology, CNR, Roma, Italy) Daniel DENNETT (Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA) Charles DE WEERT (University of Nijmegen, Holland ) Christian FREKSA (Hamburg University, Germany) Dedre GENTNER (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA) Christopher HABEL (Hamburg University, Germany) Joachim HOHNSBEIN (Dortmund University, Germany) Douglas HOFSTADTER (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA) Keith HOLYOAK (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) William HIRST (New School for Social Research, USA) Mark KEANE (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) Alan LESGOLD (University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA) Willem LEVELT (Max-Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland) Ennio De RENZI (University of Modena, Italy) David RUMELHART (Stanford University, California, USA) Richard SHIFFRIN (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA) Paul SMOLENSKY (Johns hopkinsuniversity , Baltimore, USA) Chris THORNTON (University of Sussex, Brighton, England) Carlo UMILTA' (University of Padova, Italy) Eran ZAIDEL (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) Contacts: Cognitive Science Department New Bulgarian University 21, Montevideo Street Sofia 1635, Bulgaria e-mail: office(a)cogs.nbu.acad.bg </bigger></fontfamily>