REU Site in the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences

这个REU网站是在短暂的休息后重新开始的行为和认知科学暑期本科生研究计划，最初成立于1987年。从广义上讲，该计划的目标是为参与者提供密集的研究经验，扩大他们对研究领域的接触，并提高他们的研究技能，知识和对可能的研究事业的兴趣。为了实现这些目标，学生作为教师导师的研究团队的正式成员，接触研究工作的各个方面，每个人都对一个特定的研究项目负责。学生们在实验室里进行的研究，都符合以下三个主题之一：感知和感知运动协调，学习和记忆，以及行为的情感和社会方面。学生们准备关于他们的项目的书面和口头报告以及海报展示。他们参加由相关领域的项目导师和研究人员主持的研讨会。他们参加实验室参观和实地考察，如明尼阿波利斯退伍军人医疗中心的脑科学中心、功能磁共振成像中心、人为因素实验室等。参与者将参加专门讨论研究伦理、技术写作、口头和书面报告的准备以及申请研究生课程的过程的讲习班。智力优势：教师导师都是各自领域的知名和富有成效的研究人员，致力于促进本科生的研究。学生将接触和探索实验室研究项目的各个阶段，包括设计、实施、分析和研究报告。在与他们的导师协商后，他们选择他们负责的研究的某些方面。这成为了他们的项目。由活跃和富有成效的研究人员提供的研讨会报告确保学生接触到广泛的认知和行为科学主题。参观的中心和专业实验室提供尖端技术和综合科学计划的接触。这样的访问传达了一种感觉，即当前的研究往往是跨学科的。更广泛的影响：项目结束后，参与者回到他们的家乡学校，交流他们的经历和项目的结果。这有时是通过在他们的家乡学校的正式演讲以及与教师和同学的非正式讨论来完成的。他们的研究海报经常出现在本科研究会议上，有时也出现在定期的专业会议上。在许多情况下，他们继续进行这项研究。他们也表达了他们对科学事业的兴奋之情。因此，校友学校申请REU项目的人数有所增加。大量毕业生继续攻读研究生，也明显体现了这种长期影响。许多人成为了成功的研究人员和学者。

Project SummaryThis REU site is a re-start, after a short break, of the Summer Undergraduate Research Program in the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences originally established in 1987. The objectives of the Program, broadly speaking, are to provide participants with an intensive research experience, to broaden their exposure to research domains, and to increase their research skills, knowledge, and interest toward a possible research career. To accomplish these objectives students participate as full members of a faculty mentor's research team with exposure to all aspects of the research endeavor, each taking primary responsibility for a specific research project. The research of the laboratories, in which the students are working, all fits into one of three themes: perception and perceptual-motor coordination, learning and memory, and affective and social aspects of behavior. The students prepare written and oral reports and poster presentations about their project. They attend a seminars led by program mentors and researchers in related areas. They participate in laboratory tours and field trips such as to the Brain Sciences Center at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, the fMRI Center, the Human Factors Laboratory, etc. Participants take part in workshops devoted to research ethics, technical writing, preparation of oral and written reports, and the process of applying to graduate programs.Intellectual merit: Faculty mentors are well-known and productive researchers in their fields with a commitment to fostering undergraduate research. The students are exposed to and explore all phases of laboratory research projects, including the design, conduct, analysis, and write-up of the research. In consultation with their mentor, they select some aspect of the research for which they take responsibility. This becomes their project. The seminar presentations given by active and productive researchers ensures student exposure to a broad range of topics in the cognitive and behavioral sciences. The Centers and specialized laboratories to be visited provide contact with cutting-edge technology and integrated scientific programs. Such visits convey the sense of how current research is often interdisciplinary in nature.Broader impact: Participants returning to their home schools after completion of the program communicate the nature of their experience and the results of their projects. This is done sometimes through formal presentations at their home schools as well as informal discussions with faculty and fellow students. Their research posters are often presented at undergraduate research conferences and sometimes at regular professional conferences. In many cases they continue working on that research. They also convey the excitement they feel for the scientific enterprise. As a result, there is an increase in applications to the REU program from schools of alumni. The long-term impact is also evident in the large number of alumni who go on to graduate study. Many have gone on to successful careers as researchers and academicians.