PhD Program in Cognitive Sciences
National Chung Cheng University
Key Information
Campus location
Chiayi City, Taiwan
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
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Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
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Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2023
Introduction
The all-English Ph.D. program in Cognitive Sciences (CS) at National Chung Cheng University (CCU) is a new doctoral program, formally established in 2013, created by the joint efforts among faculty members of Center for Research in Cognitive Sciences, Department of Psychology, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, Department of Philosophy, Graduate Institute of Education, Department of Electrical Engineering, and Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering. CCU has been playing a leading role in fostering and promoting cognitive sciences for more than a quarter of a century in Taiwan, and we are excited to announce the new degree-awarding Ph.D. program, which represents an interdisciplinary integration across many well-developed academic institutes and departments at CCU.
The main objectives of the CS program are to explore the nature of the human mind and intelligence, the brain mechanisms underlying mental functions, and the behaviors that derive from the mental faculties. To those ends, we have organized the CS program into four core areas in accordance with the expertise of participating faculty members: Cognitive neuroscience—visual cognition, developmental neuroscience, emotional development, reading and language development, cognitive modeling, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, etc. Linguistics and language processing—semantics, syntax, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, language and cognition, reading comprehension, computational linguistics, phonology, etc.Mind and cognition—the basis of logic and artificial intelligence, mental representation, consciousness, etc.Applied cognition—cognitive aging, human factors, education and learning, human-computer interface design, artificial intelligence, image processing, machine learning, etc.