The CNBC is a joint venture of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Our center leverages the strengths of the University of Pittsburgh in basic and clinical neuroscience and those of Carnegie Mellon in cognitive and computational neuroscience to support a coordinated cross-university research and educational program of international stature. In addition to our Ph.D. program in Neural Computation, we sponsor a graduate certificate program in cooperation with a wide variety of affiliated Ph.D. programs.

Within the CNBC, our over 200 world-class faculty and trainees are investigating the cognitive and neural mechanisms that give rise to biological intelligence and behavior. Research topics include affective, cognitive, linguistic, perceptual, motor and social systems in both normal and disordered populations, as well as computational neuroscience. The CNBC also promotes the translation of findings from basic research into applications for medicine, education, robotics and artificial intelligence.

 Founded on research conducted in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Neon Labs uses an image selection platform to maximize viewership of, and revenue from, digital content. To see the CMU press release, follow this link:

The image above shows two thumbnails promoting videos. The Neon Labs recommended thumbnail increased viewership by 59 percent.

For the federal BRAIN Initiative to be successful, statistical research must play a role, according to a white paper from the American Statistical Association (ASA), written by a working group chaired by Carnegie Mellon University's Rob Kass.

In response to calls from the National Science Foundation and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the ASA asked Kass, professor of statistics and machine learning and a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), to lead the working group in detailing the ways statisticians can contribute to this important new federal initiative.

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The CMU press release can be found at: http://www.cmu.edu/mcs/news/pressreleases/2014/0625-pafundo-knights-templar-award.html

The CNBC, in collaboration with the Departments of Psychology & Biological Sciences at CMU, is proud to announce the creation of a new major in Neuroscience.

The major, which is available to students in the Dietrich College of Humanities & Social Sciences as well as to those in the Mellon College of Science grew out of a previously established double major in Biology & Psychology.  However, rather than being a unified double major, this represents a more focused single major to train students for a variety of careers in Neuroscience.  The major represents a deeper collaboration between the two colleges and allows students from both colleges to have a more meaningful common educational experience.

All students in the major take a variety of basic science and mathematics courses as well as courses in Cellular Neurobiology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Computational Neuroscience.  Students then begin to specialize in one of these three areas while continuing to have options to explore electives in all three areas of Neuroscience.

Information about the new major can be found here: http://www.cmu.edu/neuro/major/index.html