Cognitive Neuroscience
 
Being a Cog Neuro Graduate Student, Year by Year

Year 1 |  Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Being a Post-Doc  | FMRI Camps and Workshops

 

 Year 1.

Temple requirements

  
 

• work on well-formed first year project
 

• 30 m talk on first year project, April
 

• completion of 2 semesters grad level statistics
 

• completion of 2 core courses

Olson lab suggestions

  
 

• apply for NSF predoctoral fellowship Oct-Nov
 

• apply for summer brain camp in Jan-Feb
 

• go to lab meetings of collaborators whose work segues with own
 

• submit abstract to SFN, CNS, OPAM, other.

Year 2.

Temple requirements

  
 

• present at a meeting
 

• completion of 2 core courses

Olson lab suggestions

  
 

• apply for NSF predoctoral fellowship Oct-Nov
 

• apply for summer brain camp in Jan-Feb
 

• present at lab meeting of collaborators whose work segues with own
 

• submit abstract to SFN, CNS, OPAM, other.

Year 3.

Temple requirements

  
 

• completion of written prelim exam, Sept
 

• submit dissertation proposal
 

• begin work on dissertation after proposal accepted
 

•submission of manuscript for publication by Dec.
 

• present at a meeting

Olson lab suggestions

  
 

•submit graduate NRSA grant
 

• submit abstract to SFN, CNS, OPAM, other.
 

• get to know people working in your field via email correspondence, meetings, etc.

Year 4.

Temple requirements

  
 

• present at a meeting
 

• work on dissertation, possibly defend at end of year 4, beginning of 5

Olson lab suggestions

  
 

• submit abstract to SFN, CNS, OPAM, other.
 

• get to know people working in your field via email correspondence, meetings, etc.
 

• Begin planning life after graduate school, Fall

 

Being a Cog Neuro Post-Doc, Year by Year

Year 1.

 

• go to an intensive fMRI workshop

  

• apply for NRSA grant; if foreign look for foundation grants

  

• find a good project and begin collecting fMRI data

  

• collect converging evidence for fMRI findings from another technique: lesion, TMS, etc.

  

• go to and present at Coslett, Chatterjee, or Newcombe lab meetings

  

• submit abstract to SFN, CNS, OPAM, other.

  

• End of year 1: submit empirical paper from year 1 for publication

  

• End of year 1: re-apply for Temple job

  

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Year 2.

 

• consider writing a review paper

  

• submit abstract to SFN, CNS, OPAM, other.

  

• volunteer to teach classes for Russell Epstein, Ingrid, etc.

  

• get to know people working in your field via email correspondence, meetings, etc.

  

• offer to present at lab meeting of people whose work segues well with your own

  

• consider applying for jobs in fall

  

• submit empirical paper

  

 

List of Intensive fMRI Workshops