MRI-R2: Acquisition of Dense Array EEG for Research and Training across the Disciplines

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111- 5）资助的大脑中的神经活动如何转化为“心灵”是心理学和认知科学面临的一个关键问题。 在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，迈阿密大学的心理生理学中心将获得两个高密度脑电图（EEG）系统来帮助回答这个问题。心理生理学中心位于牛津校园最近建造的心理学大楼内，将进一步推动迈阿密大学致力于高质量的教学和研究。 该中心将使人们能够获得现代认知和行为神经科学技术，并将在其使用方面积累专业知识。这些系统的获得将使来自广泛学科的研究人员能够通过各种非侵入性手段测量和建模人类大脑功能来增强他们目前的行为方法学。连续的头皮记录EEG及其衍生物事件相关电位（ERP）为了解心理处理基础的大脑活动提供了窗口。这项技术通过记录神经元在处理过程中产生的电磁场的快速变化来测量大脑活动。高密度（64通道和256通道）EEG系统的获取将使该中心的研究人员能够确定这种电生理活动的来源。通过利用数学建模技术的最新进展，这种空间信息可以用于将在EEG信号中观察到的活动定位到大脑的特定部位，从而阐明神经活动和心理功能之间的关系。 计划中的项目跨越多个学科，其中一些将涉及跨学科合作。 这些研究包括将神经激活与工作记忆和类别学习联系起来，识别决策中价值的神经相关性，测量幼儿玩耍时的大脑活动，以及对比同种族和其他种族面部识别的神经成分。 计划使用新设备的研究人员来自迈阿密大学校园所有五个部门的八个部门，包括汉密尔顿的一个地区校园。 除了支持教师和学生的研究工作，这次收购还将使该中心能够提供一个独特的心理生理学和认知神经科学本科课程，体现了“学生学者”的学习模式。 学生将获得收集和分析EEG数据的实践经验，扩大知识范围，包括自己特定学科之外的应用，并在最后一年设计和进行独立的研究项目。 这一分层课程计划是独一无二的，因为它涉及到科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科，它专注于本科生培训，是迈阿密创造参与学习者目标的典范。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5How neural activity in the brain translates into the "mind" is a critical question facing psychology and cognitive science. With support from the National Science Foundation, the Center for Psychophysiology at Miami University will acquire two high density electroencephalography (EEG) systems to help answer this question.Housed in the recently constructed Psychology Building on the Oxford campus, the Center for Psychophysiology will serve to further Miami University's dedication to high-quality teaching and research. The Center will enable access to modern cognitive and behavioral neuroscience technologies and will build expertise in their use. The acquisition of these systems will allow researchers from a broad range of disciplines to augment their current behavioral methodologies with a variety of noninvasive means of measuring and modeling human brain function.The continuous, scalp-recorded EEG and its derivative, event-related potentials (ERP), provide windows into the brain activities that underlie psychological processing. This technology measures brain activity by recording rapid changes in the electromagnetic fields generated by neurons as they engage in processing. The acquisition of high-density (64 channel and 256 channel) EEG systems will enable researchers at the Center to identify the sources of this electrophysiological activity. By taking advantage of recent advances in mathematical modeling techniques, this spatial information can be used to localize activity observed in the EEG signal to specific parts of the brain, and thus clarify the relationship between neural activity and psychological function. Planned projects span multiple disciplines, some of which will involve cross-disciplinary collaborations. These include relating neural activation to working memory and category learning, identifying the neural correlates of value in decision-making, measuring brain activities during play in young children, and contrasting the neural components of same-race and other-race face recognition. Researchers planning to use the new equipment come from eight departments spanning all five divisions of the Miami University campuses including a regional campus in Hamilton. In addition to supporting faculty and student research efforts, this acquisition will also enable the Center to offer a unique undergraduate curriculum in psychophysiology and cognitive neuroscience that embodies the "Student as Scholar" learning model. Students will obtain hands-on experiences in the collection and analysis of EEG data, broaden that knowledge to include applications outside of their own specific disciplines, and design and conduct independent research projects in their final year of study. This tiered curriculum initiative is one-of-a kind in its focus on undergraduate training as it relates to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, and is exemplary of Miami's goal of creating the engaged learner.