Web-Based Multimedia Textbook in the Behavorial Neuroscience

生物科学(61)这个项目的目标是开发一本基于万维网的行为科学电子教科书，整合基于标准文本的理论和数据阐述，以及一个多媒体数据库，以及主要实验范式的演示。这些基于文本的论述涵盖了标准行为神经学教科书中预期的相同材料。将其电子化的好处是便于与其他组件集成。多媒体数据库包括流媒体视频，以演示各种行为现象，如失语症和自闭症，脑成像技术，以及基础神经科学的实验室程序。视频还展示了实验室中有影响力的神经科学家描述其工作重要性的片段，以及大量多种类型的彩色静态图形，如脑图像、数据图表、实验室设备图片、实验刺激图片、理论模型的图形描述等。Java程序演示了主要的实验范式。学生能够从受试者的角度体验这项任务，并体验参与实验的感觉。在许多情况下，学生能够将他们自己的数据与来自正常受试者的数据以及来自特定缺陷患者的数据进行比较。作为迈向创建电子教科书目标的第一步，并根据这一项目的“概念证明”地位，正在全面开发“语言与大脑”一章。只有关于人类推理、注意力、知觉和自闭症的章节的精选部分正在开发中。

Biological Sciences (61)The goal of this project is to develop a World Wide Web-based electronic textbook in behavioral science integrating, standard text-based expositions of theory and data, and a multimedia database, and demonstrations of major experimental paradigms. The text-based expositions cover the same material expected in a standard behavioral neuroscience textbook. The advantage of putting it in electronic form is to facilitate its integration with the other components. The multimedia database includes streaming video to demonstrate a variety of behavioral phenomena such as aphasia and autism, brain imaging technology, and laboratory procedures in basic neuroscience. The video also demonstrates clips of influential neuroscientists in their laboratories describing the importance of their work, and numerous color static graphics of many kinds such as brain images, graphs of data, pictures of laboratory equipment, pictures of experimental stimuli, graphic depictions of theoretical models, etc. Java programs demonstrate the major experimental paradigms. Students are able to experience the task from the subject's point of view and see what it was like to participate in the experiment. In many instances students are able to compare their own data to data from normal subjects and data from patients with particular deficits. As a first step toward the goal of creating the electronic textbook and in accordance with the "proof of concept" status of this project, one chapter, "Language and the Brain" is being developed in full. Only selected portions of the chapters on human reasoning, attention, perception, and autism is being developed.