Core Activities of the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

该补助金为美国国家科学院行为、认知和感官科学委员会的核心活动提供支持。 该委员会响应公共政策的需要，与行为，认知和感官科学的科学发展相吻合。该委员会将集中发展心理学、社会过程、知觉和感觉科学、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，以改进政策决定。委员会加强了交流，扩大了数据库，并使科学信息更容易为广大受众所利用。董事会活动同时通过从不同角度探讨问题来改善研究。由于杰出的科学家自愿作为NAS-NRC委员会的成员提供服务，这些委员会成为跨学科不同研究领域为公共政策提供信息的机制。董事会在许多方面直接有益于科学。科学学科通常由其各自领域的问题和方法驱动，当从跨学科的方法共同考虑问题时，生产力不断提高。然而，大多数政府机构的任务导向已经减轻了相互共享的科学规划。因此，这样一个委员会的好处包括：（1）提供跨联邦机构和独立的行为，社会，认知，感官和技术研究社区的联系;（2）使全国著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）提供一个论坛，交流有关科学和公共政策的信息;以及（4）在NAS-NRC内部，通过委员会与国会和联邦综合体的各种项目办公室和研究项目的活动，推进行为、认知和感官科学。

This grant provides support for the core activities of the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences at the National Academy of Sciences. The Board responds to public policy needs that coincide with scientific developments in the behavioral, cognitive, and sensory sciences. 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.