IGERT: The Dynamics of Brain-Body-Environment Systems in Behavior and Cognition

这项综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持印第安纳大学在行为和认知方面的脑-体-环境相互作用动力学的培训计划。该培训计划的目的是培养一种新型的科学家，他们具备必要的实验和理论工具来分析作为复杂动态系统的紧急属性的智能。培训计划包括新课程、专业发展研讨会、为学生和顶尖研究人员提供扩展互动机会的一系列学术讨论会、研究实习以及国际合作机会。该项目还包括一项详细的评估计划，以及与印第安纳大学西北分校合作开展的针对代表性不足群体本科生的暑期项目，该项目约80%的学生来自少数民族、第一代大学生、女性或社会经济地位较低的群体。该项目更广泛的影响包括从未被充分代表的群体中招募新的学生进入认知科学，并为研究生提供参与前沿多学科研究的机会。本项目制作的所有材料将在网上免费提供。更广泛地说，这个项目将在构成认知科学的各个学科之间培养新的话语。最后，通过将认知置于其适当的具体和情境中，拟议的培训计划可能会影响社会如何培养和衡量认知能力。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，促进研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports a training program on the dynamics of brain-body-environment interaction in behavior and cognition at Indiana University. The purpose of the training program is to create a new kind of scientist with expertise in both the experimental and theoretical tools necessary to analyze intelligence as an emergent property of a complex dynamic system. The training program includes new courses, a professional development seminar, a colloquium series that provides opportunities for extended interactions between students and top researchers, research internships, and opportunities for international collaboration. The program also includes a detailed assessment plan and a summer program for undergraduates from underrepresented groups run in partnership with Indiana University Northwest, approximately 80% of whose students come from minority, first-generation college, female or low socioeconomic categories. Broader impacts of this program include recruiting new students from underrepresented groups into cognitive science and providing graduate students with the opportunity to participate in cutting-edge multidisciplinary research. All materials produced by this program will be made freely available on the web. More generally, this program will foster new kinds of discourse between the various disciplines that make up cognitive science. Finally, by placing cognition within its proper embodied and situated context, the proposed training program may impact how society fosters and measures cognitive ability. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.