NeuroVisions: Teaching Neuroscience Research Methods with Neuroimaging Data

Neurovisions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，并响应将神经成像纳入神经科学课程的资源需求。 NeuroVisions让学生参与成瘾，记忆，语言，情感和意识的探索，并提供由领先的神经成像科学家提供的真实的数据。 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，并在研究报告中撰写研究结果。NeuroVisions采用WebImage，这是一种基于Java的图像处理和分析程序，由该项目的关键人员开发，作为一种教育技术。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，并看到神经解剖结构和神经生理过程的第一手资料。 该课程正在本科研究方法，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，在本科神经科学学院成员教授的课程中评估NeuroVisions。

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.