<p>I'm currently a sophomore at Vanderbilt University, majoring in Cognitive Studies and Computer Science. I plan to go into graduate school to study Cognitive Science and ultimately become a professor of Cognitive Science, but I'm having difficulty finding a school with the focus I am looking for.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon's undergraduate curriculum is probably the best I've seen (as far as it relates to my interests in psychology, computer science, and philosophy) but unfortunately the only Cognitive PhD seems to be Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, which doesn't sound very focused on either Computer Science or on Philosophy.</p>
<p>MIT has a department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, with several faculty members working on computational work or collaborations with the EECS department.</p>
<p>Still unsure exactly what you’re interested in, but there are quite a few groups at Georgia Tech doing work related to the brain, ranging from engineering ( [NeuroLab></a> Home](<a href=“http://www.neuro.gatech.edu%5DNeuroLab%3E”>http://www.neuro.gatech.edu) ) to human-computer interaction ( [GVU</a> Center at Georgia Tech](<a href=“http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/]GVU”>http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/) ). The former is mostly from the ECE and BME departments, and the latter is from mostly the College of Computing.</p>
<p>Vincent, look into the University of Pittsburgh CNUP (Center for Neuroscience at University of Pittsburgh.) They have a special collaborative program with Carnegie Mellon called the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. From what I understand, you enroll in the PhD in Neuroscience program at Pitt, then become a part of CNBC for an additional certificate. Computer science is definitely listed as one of the approaches.</p>
<p>Don’t know about other schools, but do know that Brown University, which is extremely collaborative generally, has a Brain Science Institute, and is strong in Neuroscience and CS at the PhD level, plus has a Med School:</p>
<p>The Brown Institute for Brain Science
(BIBS) comprises more than 100 faculty
in many of Brown’s most respected
departments and divisions: Neuroscience,
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Clinical
Neuroscience, Biology & Medicine,
Psychiatry, Computer Science,
Engineering, Physics, Psychology,
Philosophy, and Applied Mathematics.</p>
<p>for CMU I think they also have a PhD in Psychology and AI. AI really is a fusion of Philosophy and CS. You may also want to look at HCI programs. Penn State IST has grad programs in AI/Applied Cog Sci/HCI</p>
<p>I’m thinking that perhaps the philosophy part was included in the curriculum at CMU as a way of giving a good foundation in the significance of the field, and may not be really a part of the field itself. [though CMU’s Philosophy department also has some things that look intensely interesting]</p>
<p>In that case, I suppose I am interested in applying my Computer Science knowledge and skills to the study of the mind. Psychology and AI sounds appealing. I like Psychology, but I like to take a more mathematical/computational approach to things and the only field related to psychology that I’ve seen do that is Cognitive Science.</p>
<p>Neuroscience is kinda cool, but it seems more medicinal in nature (or perhaps the course I took was just geared towards medical students).</p>
<p>Neuroscience doesn’t have to be medical at all. Look up computational neuroscience. Columbia and Yale (and plenty of other places) have some very good computational people in their neuroscience/neurobiology departments, looking at things like decision making, working memory, etc.</p>
<p>If you aren’t wedded to cognitive neuroscience, then check out Princeton’s new neuroscience program. It has a computational/quantitative neuroscience track, with a focus more in molecular biology and systems than in cognitive neuroscience.</p>
<p>Thanks all who replied. I’ve since divorced my philosophical interests from my cognitive science interests as they overlap very little (my interests in them, that is).</p>