Cognitive Psych programs focusing on Category learning and Statistics (What university for a PhD?)

[n8poe1992]

Hello all,

 

I have a BA in psychology and philosophy, and am currently getting a master's degree in statistics. I did research as an undergraduate student in the field of categorization, focusing on similarity and analogy, and would like to pursue a PhD in cognitive psychology (or cognitive science) specializing in that area of category formation from a computational standpoint, particularly from a statistical/probabilistic framework. I am curious as to what universities might have programs/departments/research centers of interest to me (or that you think would), so any information would be most appreciated.  

 

I am not exactly sure when I will be applying for doctoral programs, but it will be after I finish this program, so post 2016. 

 

Thanks

Edited February 10, 2015 by n8powe1992

[stayandsea]

Hey - so consider Dr. Gupta for his cognitive work on categorization (there is a big emphasis on language across disciplines at Iowa, very exciting!) and computational modeling. For the statistics bit, I can personally recommend Fordham, UNC (depends on what you're into though) and UCLA. Good luck!

[cogsci1]

Oh wow this is almost exactly what I did and hope to be doing, both majors and statistics, except I did statistics in undergraduate, no masters. I'm not sure what tier you're looking at, but the best I could list off the top of my head are: Berkeley, Stanford, UCSD, UCLA, WUSTL, MIT, Brown, NYU, Michigan.

They all have different focuses and interests, but that's where I'd start

[n8poe1992]

It's great to see someone else who is doing the same thing. Yeah I am doing a masters to not only learn some more advanced statistical techniques (especially in modeling) but also to hopefully make up for my undergraduate GPA (which wasn't terrible; 3.4 overall after my first 3 semesters as a chemistry major went...not so well). I am just not entirely sure what tier school I should aim for I guess; I obviously would love to go to all of those schools that were just mentioned (NYU, WUSTL, and Berkeley being personal dreams of mine).