October 2004 Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning Conference

2004 年 10 月学习认知神经科学会议

• 批准号: 0425560
• 负责人: Mark Gluck
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 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: 2004-08-15 至 2005-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0425560&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: October; 2004; Cognitive; Neuroscience; Learning

This proposal supports Third Annual Workshop on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Category Learning, to be held October 10th and 11th, 2004, in New York City. The study of category learning has been a central paradigm within cognitive psychology for over twenty-five years. For a number of reasons, cognitive neuroscientists have recently been drawn to this paradigm. First, there is a large body of pre-existing empirical and theoretical analyses of category learning. Neuropsychological studies of brain-damaged populations and neuroimaging of healthy subjects have provided preliminary insights into the cognitive neuroscience of category learning. Second, category learning has aspects of both elementary associative learning as well as higher order cognition. It is this dual nature-part elementary skill, part higher cognition-which makes category learning a valuable paradigm for studying fundamental and important aspects of human learning, at both the behavioral and neural levels of analysis. Advancing research in category learning will have many broad impacts on society including (1) enhanced interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborations, (2) increased international contacts and dissemination of research, (3) expanded participation in science and training for women and under-represented minorities, and (4) broad dissemination of program content via meeting participation, meeting website, and free distribution of conference program with all speaker's slides. By providing funds to include more graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, this proposal stands to enhance the workshop's intellectual merit still further by increasing the breadth and depth of ideas that will be discussed at the meeting.

本提案支持将于2004年10月10日至11日在纽约举行的第三届类别学习认知神经科学年度研讨会。范畴学习的研究已经在认知心理学的中心范式超过25年。由于一些原因，认知神经科学家最近被这种范式所吸引。首先，已有大量关于类别学习的实证和理论分析。脑损伤人群的神经心理学研究和健康受试者的神经影像学研究为类别学习的认知神经科学提供了初步的见解。第二，类别学习既有初级联想学习的特点，也有高级认知的特点。正是这种双重性质——一部分是基本技能，一部分是高级认知——使类别学习成为研究人类学习的基本和重要方面的一个有价值的范式，在行为和神经的分析水平上都是如此。推进分类学习的研究将对社会产生许多广泛的影响，包括：(1)加强跨学科和机构间的合作；(2)增加国际联系和研究的传播；(3)扩大妇女和代表性不足的少数民族对科学和培训的参与；(4)通过会议参与、会议网站和免费分发会议计划和所有演讲者的幻灯片，广泛传播项目内容。通过提供资金来招收更多的研究生和博士后，该提案将通过增加会议讨论的思想的广度和深度，进一步提高研讨会的智力价值。