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• 批准号: 0648715
• 负责人: Herbert Pick
• 金额: $ 18.98万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-15 至 2010-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0648715&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Behavioral; Cognitive; Sciences

ABSTRACTProposal #0649249PI: Dr. Jay ColemanTitle of Project: Summer Research Institute in Experimental PsychologyThe Summer Research Institute in Experimental Psychology REU at the University of South Carolina permits 10 undergraduate students to conduct research with internationally recognized scientific scholars in the subfields of behavioral neuroscience, cognition, and cognitive neuroscience for eight weeks. Students are selected from undergraduate institutions nationwide including those with minority-based populations.The SRIEP focuses minority and non-minority student interest and enthusiasm on the basic science areas of psychology. This provides students an experience in graduate level research including an opportunity to formulate and conduct an experiment with individual guidance from an energetic and supportive research faculty mentor. The student will experience major phases of experimental research including literature generation, data collection, data organization, statistical analysis, and writing a report in the style of the American Psychological Association. A research symposium allows students to present their work at the end of the SRIEP program. Students will learn advanced technology such as drug administration, behavioral testing, immunohistochemistry, confocal microscopy and gene transfer in animals, fMRI/MRI, high density EEG, ERP, and cognitive methods to study attention, deception, development, language, memory and decision making in humans. Student experiences will be enriched by weekly research seminars by faculty with assigned readings, and by weekly sessions on problems in research design and statistics in experimental psychology including discussion of ethics. The University of South Carolina Summer Research Institute in Experimental Psychology provides a forum for educating undergraduate students about the field of experimental psychology. This program emphasis is much needed, as the U.S. is perceived as the leader in fields of experimental psychology, but our universities must be able to motivate and train the best students for future careers in vital areas of behavioral and neural sciences. The Summer Research Institute provides one vehicle to enhance these goals, particularly to educate students who more limited research opportunities at their institution. Program results are documented by follow-up surveys which demonstrate higher numbers of participants entering basic science graduate programs than cohorts of non-participant program applicants.

摘要提案编号0649249 PI：Jay Coleman博士项目名称：实验心理学暑期研究所南卡罗来纳州的实验心理学暑期研究所REU允许10名本科生与国际公认的科学学者在行为神经科学，认知和认知神经科学的子领域进行为期八周的研究。 学生是从全国的本科院校中挑选出来的，包括那些少数民族人口。SRIEP集中了少数民族和非少数民族学生对心理学基础科学领域的兴趣和热情。 这为学生提供了研究生水平研究的经验，包括制定和进行实验的机会，并从一个充满活力和支持性的研究教师导师的个人指导。 学生将经历实验研究的主要阶段，包括文献生成，数据收集，数据组织，统计分析，并以美国心理协会的风格撰写报告。 一个研究研讨会允许学生在SRIEP计划结束时展示他们的工作。 学生将学习先进的技术，如药物管理，行为测试，免疫组织化学，共聚焦显微镜和动物基因转移，fMRI/MRI，高密度EEG，ERP和认知方法，以研究人类的注意力，欺骗，发展，语言，记忆和决策。 学生的经验将通过教师每周的研究研讨会与指定的阅读，并通过每周的会议上的问题，研究设计和统计实验心理学，包括伦理学的讨论丰富。 南卡罗来纳州暑期实验心理学研究所为本科生提供了一个关于实验心理学领域的教育论坛。 这一计划的重点是非常必要的，因为美国被认为是实验心理学领域的领导者，但我们的大学必须能够激励和培养最优秀的学生，为未来的职业生涯在行为和神经科学的重要领域。 暑期研究所提供了一个工具，以提高这些目标，特别是教育学生谁在他们的机构更有限的研究机会。 该计划的结果记录了后续调查，其中表明更多的参与者进入基础科学研究生课程比非参与者计划申请人的队列。