Summer Research Institute in Experimental Psychology

项目名称：实验心理学暑期研究所南卡罗来纳大学实验心理学暑期研究所REU允许10名本科生与国际知名的行为神经科学、认知和认知神经科学的子领域的科学学者进行为期8周的研究。学生从全国的本科院校中选拔，包括少数民族院校。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的研究经验，包括有机会在充满活力和支持的研究教师导师的个人指导下制定和进行实验。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，以及按照美国心理协会的风格撰写报告。研究研讨会允许学生在SRIEP项目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、功能磁共振成像/核磁共振成像、高密度脑电图、ERP和认知方法来研究人类的注意力、欺骗、发展、语言、记忆和决策。学生的经验将通过每周由教师举办的研究研讨会和指定的阅读材料，以及每周关于实验心理学研究设计和统计问题（包括伦理讨论）的会议来丰富。南卡罗来纳大学实验心理学暑期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。这个项目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，为未来在行为和神经科学的重要领域的职业生涯做好准备。夏季研究所提供了一种工具来实现这些目标，特别是对那些在自己的机构研究机会有限的学生进行教育。项目结果由后续调查记录，这些调查表明，进入基础科学研究生项目的参与者人数高于非参与项目申请者。

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.