Students who are interested in taking Cognitive Science 495 or Cognitive Science 496 are responsible for finding professors interested in supervising their research, and should approach faculty whose research interests are closest to theirs. Students interested in these courses should be aware that many professors expect a two semester commitment. In addition, students should realize that faculty who participate in the Cognitive Science Center, and hence, are likely to sponsor independent research courses, come from different departments (mainly philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and psychology), and these departments have different perspectives on research courses. For example, in psychology and, to a lesser extent, computer science, students frequently take research courses, but these research courses are usually research internships, with the student working on an ongoing project in the faculty sponsor's lab. In philosophy & linguistics, few students do supervised research projects, but when they do, their research may be somewhat more independent.