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Doctoral Program in Cognitive Science and Language

General aims
Doctorate structure
Reseaech lines
Doctoral Thesis directors
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Department responsible for the management of the doctoral programme
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General Aims of the Doctorate

The main aim of the doctorate is to produce doctors for high quality and advanced research. To this end, the general aims of the course are the following:

To incorporate the students into a research group.
To broaden their skills so that they can specialize in different aspects of the lines of research set out in the programme.
To strengthen students' initiative in developing research projects with a methodology and scientific principles appropriate to their field of research.
To foster general individual and team working abilities, participation in research projects, bibliographical database management, etc.
To produce a doctoral thesis.

Estructura del doctorado

The formation period of the doctorate programme is linked to the following Master's degree introduced on the University (in order to the RD 1393/2007):

Ciencia cognitiva y lenguaje

Research Lines and Directors of Doctoral Theses

Lingüística

Linguistics of corpus: extraction of information (A. Martí, I. Castellon, UB)
Lexicology, lexicography and terminology (UPF) (Natàlia Català Torres (Dept. of Romance Studies), URV)
Theoretical Linguistics
Linguistic (UAB) computacional (UPF)

Philosofy

Logic, epistemology, ontology and cognitive sciences (D. Quesada, UAB; J.A. Díez Calzada, UB; J. Martínez, UB; Fabrice Correia, UB)
Philosophy of the language, semantics and philosophy of the cognitive science (M. García-carpintero, R. Cirera, J. Macià, UB; M. Perez Otero; J.A. Díez Calzada, UB; J.L. Prades, D. Pineda, J. Pagès, UdG)

Psichology

Perception, production and acquisition of the language (L. Bosch, N. Sebastián, A. Costa, J. Batista)
Processes of attention (S. Soto, J. López)
Cognitive Aspects of the pathology of the language (M. Serra)
Detours, reasoning based in ex. (Impl.) and rules (expl.) (E. Tubau Sala)
Processing of the language and bilingualism (José Eugenio García-Albea Ristol (Dept. of Psychology), Rosa Maria Sánchez-casas Padilla (Dept. of Psychology), Josep Demestre Viladevall (Dept. of Psychology), URV)

Admission

Maximum number of students: 40 sztudents
Criteria for admission and selection:

The fulfilment of the established conditions, as a requirement of admission in the 19th article and 4th addicional order of the RD 1393/2007, is necessary to be able to entry at the Doctorate Program while its research mode.

To be admitted into the Program of Doctorate or in the Master's degree it is necessary to be licensed in Psychology, Philosophy, Linguistics, Translation and Interpretation or Filologies. Exceptionally persons are accepted by other licentiates. The title of the interuniversity master's degree of Cognitive Science and Language enables of direct form to request the admission in the program of doctorate, without need of any more documentation for the matriculation that the one that establishes the own university with general character. The solicitors with another qualifications similar to that of saying master's degree will have to attach in addition (a) the updated CV, (b) a brief description of a possible topic of interest for the project of thesis, (c) a sample of some written work that reflects your interests and aptitudes of research and And aptitudes of research and (d) two letters of reference that support your request for this program of doctorate.

Specific Criteria:

It is necessary to to request the admission, by means of the procedure of inscription before the matriculation established by the ownuniversity.
It is necessary to to request the admission, by means of the procedure of inscription before the matriculation established by the ownuniversity.
The committees of admission of every university will bear in mind in their resolutions the academic process of the person solicitor, his aptitudes for the research, as well as the adequacy of the topic of research to the lines of research offered in the program and the availability of the professorship to be able to supervise the accomplishment of new doctoral theses. The committee of admission will decide if a request is (a) accepted, (b) rejected, or (c) accepted of conditional form to the accomplishment of certain credits of training of the master's degree.

Coordinator
Dr. Rosa Maria Sánchez-Casas Padilla Department of Psychology (Faculty of Education Sciences and Psychology) 977 558 095 rosamaria.sanchezcasas(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Coordinator