Board on Behavioral, Cognitive and Sensory Sciences

行为、认知和感觉科学委员会已经在国家科学院成立，以回应与这些领域的科学发展相一致的公共政策需求。该委员会将通过汇集发展心理学、社会过程、感知和感官科学、生物心理学和生物技术、神经科学和计算科学等不同领域的集体专门知识，重点改善政策决策。委员会加强交流，扩大数据库，并使更广泛的受众更容易获得科学信息。董事会的活动通过从不同的角度探讨问题来同时改善研究。因为杰出的科学家自愿成为NAS-NRC委员会的成员，这样的委员会成为一种机制，让不同的研究领域交叉受精，为公共政策提供信息。董事会在许多方面直接造福于科学。通常由各自领域的问题和方法驱动的科学学科，在从跨学科的方法联合考虑问题时，已经产生了越来越大的生产力。然而，大多数政府机构的使命导向已经减轻了对共同分享的科学规划的抵触。因此，这样一个委员会的好处包括：(1)在联邦机构和不同的行为、社会、认知、感觉和技术研究社区之间提供联系；(2)让全国知名的学术科学家参与行为、认知和感官科学的改进和发展；(3)为与科学和公共政策有关的信息交流提供一个论坛；(4)在NAS-NRC内部以及通过委员会与国会以及整个联邦复合体的不同计划办公室和研究计划开展的活动，促进行为、认知和感官科学的发展。董事会从国家科学基金会寻求其核心活动的资金。

A Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences has been established at the National Academy of Sciences in response to public policy needs that coincide with scientific developments in these fields. This Board will focus on improving policy decisions by drawing together the collective expertise of diverse fields of developmental psychology, social processes, perceptual and sensory sciences, biopsychology and biotechnology, neuroscience and computational sciences. A Board strengthens communications, broadens the databases, and makes scientific information more accessible to wider audiences. Board activities simultaneously improve research by probing issues from diverse perspectives. Because distinguished scientists volunteer their services as members of NAS-NRC Boards, such Boards become a mechanism for cross-fertilizing disparate research domains to inform public policy. A Board directly benefits science in a number of ways. Scientific disciplines, typically driven by the issues and methods of their respective fields, have yielded increasing productivity when jointly considering problems from an interdisciplinary approach. However, the mission-orientation of most government agencies has mitigated against mutually shared scientific planning. Thus, the benefits of such a Board include: (1) providing linkages across federal agencies and the separate behavioral, social, cognitive, sensory, and technology research communities; (2) involving nationally-prominent academic scientists in improvements and developments in the behavioral, cognitive, and sensory sciences; (3) providing a forum for information exchange relating to science and public policy; and (4) advancing behavioral, cognitive, and sensory sciences within the NAS-NRC and through the Board's activities with Congress and the diverse program offices and research programs across the federal complex. The Board seeks funding for its core activities from NSF.