PIRE: International Research Program in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience

Rauschecker 0730255PIRE：认知与计算神经科学国际研究项目在这项国际研究与教育合作项目中，乔治城大学和霍华德大学将发展一个涉及德国和法国几个机构的多边国际神经科学合作项目。参与研究的美国研究人员和学生将与慕尼黑工业大学Arthur Konnerth领导的团队、慕尼黑路德维希-马克西米利安大学Benedikt Grothe领导的团队、图宾根马克斯·普朗克生物控制论研究所Nikos Logothetis领导的团队、图宾根埃伯哈德-卡尔斯大学Peter Thier领导的团队、伊维特河畔吉夫分子和细胞神经生物学实验室Gabriella Ugolini领导的团队合作。以及西蒙·索普领导的图卢兹大脑与认知研究中心。他们将形成一个集中的、综合的、互补的合作，在国际舞台上领导神经科学研究和教育。研究主题包括与听觉客体加工、运动加工和情境运动行为相关的大脑皮层神经元功能，以及刺激加工和类别加工在客体识别中的相互作用。该奖项将帮助培养下一代从事全球工作的科学家和工程师，因为大约20名本科生，14名研究生和5名博士后研究人员将获得资助，在五年的课程中与德国和法国合作伙伴一起在国外进行研究。此外，该奖项将允许乔治城大学和霍华德大学与慕尼黑工业大学开展联合博士项目的计划，并将利用慕尼黑工业大学已经从德国研究基金会获得的资金，该基金会鼓励美国/德国合作，允许德国博士生通过国际研究培训小组项目在乔治城进行研究。该奖项将加强霍华德大学和乔治城大学之间已经存在的神经科学合作，并通过利用霍华德大学招收代表性不足的少数民族学生的能力，扩大参与。总体而言，该项目旨在通过积极的国际合作和参与联合组织的国际暑期学院来拓宽学生的视野。该奖项包括为外部评估人员提供资金，以确定项目达到其目标的程度。该奖项得到了美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室和行为与认知科学部的支持。

Rauschecker 0730255PIRE: International Research Program in Cognitive and Computational NeuroscienceIn this Partnership for International Research and Education award, Georgetown University and Howard University will develop a multi-lateral international neuroscience collaboration involving several German and French institutions. The U.S. researchers and students involved will work with teams at the Technical University of Munich led by Arthur Konnerth, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich led by Benedikt Grothe, at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen led by Nikos Logothetis, at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tubingen led by Peter Thier, at the Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology in Gif-sur-Yvette led by Gabriella Ugolini, and at the Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse led by Simon Thorpe. They will form a focused, integrated, and complementary collaboration to lead neuroscience research and education on the international stage. Research topics include the neuronal functions of the cerebral cortex associated with auditory object processing, motion processing and contextual motor behavior, and the interaction of stimulus processing and category processing to produce object recognition.This award will help to train the next generation of globally engaged scientists and engineers, as approximately twenty undergraduate students, fourteen graduate students, and five postdoctoral researchers will be funded to conduct research abroad with the German and French partners over the five-year course of the award. In addition, this award will allow Georgetown and Howard Universities to pursue their plans of developing a joint doctoral program with the Technical University of Munich and will leverage funds already received by the Technical University of Munich from the German Research Foundation, which encourage U.S. / German collaboration by allowing German doctoral students to conduct research at Georgetown via the International Research Training Group program. This award will enhance an already-existing neuroscience collaboration between Howard University and Georgetown University and will broaden participation by taking advantage of Howard University's ability to recruit under-represented minority students. The project overall is designed to broaden students' perspectives through an active international collaboration and participation in jointly organized international summer academies. The award includes funding for an outside evaluator to determine how well the project reaches its goals.This award receives support from NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering and Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.