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

这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训(IGERT)奖支持印第安纳大学关于行为和认知中大脑-身体-环境相互作用动力学的培训计划。培训计划的目的是培养一种拥有实验和理论工具专业知识的新型科学家，这些工具是将智能作为复杂动态系统的紧急属性进行分析所必需的。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广泛互动机会的系列座谈会、研究实习和国际合作机会。该计划还包括一项详细的评估计划和一项针对与印第安纳大学西北分校合作运营的代表不足群体本科生的暑期计划，这些群体约80%的学生来自少数族裔、第一代大学、女性或低社会经济类别。该计划的更广泛影响包括招收来自代表性不足群体的新学生进入认知科学，并为研究生提供参与尖端多学科研究的机会。该计划制作的所有材料都将在网上免费提供。更广泛地说，这个项目将在组成认知科学的不同学科之间培养新的话语类型。最后，通过将认知置于其适当的具体和情境环境中，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是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化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.