A Center for Cognitive, Social, Computational & Mathematical Neuroscience

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。该项目旨在改造马里兰大学帕克校区生物/心理学大楼中过时的实验室套房，以创建认知、社会、计算和数学神经科学联合中心。该中心将包括共享实验室空间，旨在支持脑成像、眼动追踪、计算密集型数据分析和神经科学领域的合作研究。该设施将供50-60名研究人员使用，包括心理学系的教师、博士后研究人员、研究助理、研究生和本科生，以及来自校园和合作机构的合作者。联合中心的共享和专用实验室设施的结合旨在将不同学科的研究人员和学生聚集在一起，他们有重叠的兴趣和使用重叠的方法。这种独特的多学科安排将使研究人员能够使用共享成像、电生理、眼动追踪、数字编码和计算设施并肩工作，并达到远远超出通常在单个实验室中发生的协同和协作水平。联合中心将支持的研究领域包括认知发展、判断和决策过程、视觉过程、情感和情感过程以及社会和跨文化过程。具体来说，联合中心将支持研究项目，如研究认知训练对改善认知功能的功效，研究涉及物体识别和背景杂波抑制的神经机制，研究文化特异性对与全球冲突和合作最相关的基本判断和决策过程的影响（如果有的话），并从行为和神经两个层面探讨注意与婴儿依恋等生理过程和社会关系的关系。联合中心将对马里兰大学的研究质量和研究培训产生巨大的积极影响，并将成为未来致力于行为和大脑研究的合作中心的典范。联合中心还将促进本科教育和推广工作，以改善大学内部和受影响科学领域的多样性。联合中心的设计和布局将大大提高大学通过本科生荣誉研究将心理学教育和研究结合起来的能力，并为当地有大量来自弱势群体的学生的学院和大学提供本科生研究机会。联合中心将保留空间，以支持与摩根州立大学的教师及其学生的研究伙伴关系。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This project is to renovate outdated laboratory suites in the Biology/Psychology Building on the campus of the University of Maryland - College Park to create the Joint Center for Cognitive, Social, Computational, and Mathematical Neuroscience. The Center will include shared laboratory space designed to support brain imaging, eye-tracking, computationally intensive data analysis, and collaborative research in neuroscience. The facility will be used by 50-60 researchers, including the faculty of the Psychology Department, their postdoctoral researchers, research assistants, graduate and undergraduate students, and collaborators from across the campus and partner institutions. The combination of shared and dedicated laboratory facilities in the Joint Center is designed to bring together researchers and students in various disciplines who have overlapping interests and use overlapping methodologies. The unique, multidisciplinary arrangement will enable researchers to work side-by-side using shared imaging, electrophysiological, eye-tracking, digital coding, and computational facilities and reach a level of synergy and collaboration that is well beyond what normally occurs in individual laboratories. Areas of research that will be enabled by the Joint Center include cognitive development, judgment and decision processes, visual processes, emotion and affective processes, and social and cross-cultural processes. Specifically the Joint Center will support research projects such as examining the efficacy of cognitive training for improving cognitive functioning, studying the neural mechanisms involved in object recognition and suppression of background clutter, examining the culture-specific effect, if any, on fundamental judgment and decision processes which are most relevant to global conflict and cooperation, and exploring the relationship between attention and physiological processes and social relations such as infant attachment at both the behavioral and neural levels.The Joint Center will have a tremendously positive impact on the quality of research and research training at the University of Maryland and will serve as a model for future collaborative centers devoted to behavioral and brain research. The Joint Center will also facilitate undergraduate education and outreach efforts to improve diversity within the university and the affected scientific fields. The Joint Center design and layout will greatly increase the ability of the university to integrate education and research in psychology through undergraduate honors research, as well as to provide undergraduate research opportunities to local colleges and universities with significant numbers of students from underrepresented groups. Space will be reserved in the Joint Center to support a research partnership with faculty from Morgan State University and their students.