NeuroVisions: Teaching Neuroscience Research Methods with Neuroimaging Data

NeuroVisions：利用神经影像数据教授神经科学研究方法

• 批准号: 0341347
• 负责人: Steven Moore
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Center for Image Processing in Education
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-03-01 至 2006-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0341347&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeuroVisions; Teaching; Neuroscience; Research; Methods

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.

Neurovisions 正在创建、评估和传播名为“康复之路”的原型课程。 该原型有助于将技术融入本科教育，并满足将神经影像学纳入神经科学课程的资源需求。 NeuroVisions 让学生利用领先的神经影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发现。 NeuroVisions 采用 WebImage 作为教育技术，WebImage 是由该项目的关键人员开发的基于 Java 的图像处理和分析程序。 WebImage 让学生有机会检查真实数据、做出自己的发现并亲眼看到神经解剖结构和神经生理过程，从而丰富了本科生的教育体验。 该课程正在本科生研究方法、神经科学和普通心理学课程中进行测试，并将衡量学生对神经科学、神经影像和研究方法理解的变化。评估结果将在期刊和神经科学学会会议上传播；还将制定一项计划来评估本科生神经科学学院成员教授的课程中的神经视觉。