NeuroVisions: Teaching Neuroscience Research Methods with Neuroimaging Data

“神经视觉”正在创建、评估和传播一个名为“康复之路”的原型课程。该原型有助于将技术整合到本科教育中，并回应了将神经影像学纳入神经科学课程的资源需求。神经视觉让学生通过领先的神经成像科学家提供的真实数据，对成瘾、记忆、语言、情感和意识进行基于发现的探索。学生提出假设，设计实验，处理和分析脑成像数据，进行统计分析，根据分析得出结论，并在研究报告中写下研究结果。NeuroVisions采用WebImage作为教育技术，WebImage是一个基于java的图像处理和分析程序，由该项目的主要人员开发。WebImage丰富了本科生的教育经验，让学生有机会检查真实的数据，做出自己的发现，并看到第一手的神经解剖结构和神经生理过程。该课程将在本科生的研究方法、神经科学和普通心理学课程中进行测试，并将测量学生对神经科学、神经成像和研究方法的理解变化。评估结果将在期刊和神经科学学会会议上发布；还将制定一项计划，评估神经科学学院本科生教授的课程中的神经视觉。

Neurovisions is creating, evaluating and disseminating a prototype lesson called "The Path to Recovery". The prototype helps integrate technology into undergraduate education and responds to a need for resources that incorporate neuroimaging into neuroscience curricula. NeuroVisions involves students in discovery-based explorations of addiction, memory, language, emotion, and consciousness with real data provided by leading neuroimaging scientists. Students formulate hypotheses, design experiments, process and analyze brain imaging data, perform statistical analyses, draw conclusions based on their analyses, and write up findings in research reports. NeuroVisions employs WebImage, a Java-based image processing and analysis program developed by key personnel on this project, as an educational technology. WebImage enriches the undergraduate educational experience by giving students a chance to examine real data, make their own discoveries, and see neuroanatomical structures and neurophysiological processes first-hand. The lesson is being tested in undergraduate research methods, neuroscience, and general psychology courses, and changes in student understanding about neuroscience, neuroimaging, and research methods will be measured. Evaluation results will be disseminated in journals and at a Society for Neuroscience meeting; a plan will also be devised to evaluate NeuroVisions in courses taught by members of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience.