IGERT: Language plasticity - Genes, Brain, Cognition and Computation

这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训(IGERT)奖项建立了一个独特的跨学科培训计划，为认知(语言学、心理学、沟通障碍)和生物学(分子遗传学、行为遗传学、神经科学)领域的博士科学家培养准备，以实现对人类语言发展的统一认知-生物学理解。这种方法的创新将解决教育、技术和卫生方面的社会挑战。智力价值：对人类语言的全面理解？包括遗传、神经、认知和环境的影响，这些影响塑造了语言的发展和脑损伤的恢复？需要将大量的生物科学和认知科学联系起来。传统的研究生培训方法培养出技术重叠很少的认知和生物语言科学家？沟通的障碍。学员将在自己的领域发展专业知识和严格的跨学科培训，提供广泛而深入的其他领域的理论和方法知识，以在多学科团队中进行沟通、合作和创新。培训计划采用基于团队的模式，在旨在促进创造力和创新的环境中？以及如何将这些研究转化为教育、技术和卫生应用的综合课程和培训。广泛影响：这个IGERT奖项将培养新一代领导者，以进行(并培训其他人进行)基于团队的基础和应用研究，以实现统一的语言生物-认知科学。主要组成部分包括：以创新的方式与教育工作者、政策制定者和公众进行沟通，以应对技术和教育领域的社会挑战；全面努力，增加历史上代表性不足的群体在科学领域的参与；通过现场和基于互联网的机会，为日益国际化的科学界培养学员，以便与世界各地领先的语言认知和生物研究中心建立联系。IGERT是一项NSF范围的计划，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、选定学科的深厚知识以及未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在建立新的研究生教育和培训模式，为超越传统学科界限的合作研究创造一个肥沃的环境，并让学生了解将研究转化为创新以造福社会的过程。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award establishes a unique interdisciplinary training program that prepares Ph.D. scientists from cognitive (linguistics, psychology, communication disorders) and biological fields (molecular genetics, behavior genetics, neuroscience) to achieve a unified cognitive-biological understanding of human language development. Innovations from this approach will address societal challenges in education, technology, and health. Intellectual Merit: A full understanding of human language ? including genetic, neural, cognitive and environmental influences that shape language development and recovery from brain injury ? requires linking a vast array of biological and cognitive sciences. Conventional approaches to graduate training produce cognitive and biological language scientists with little technical overlap ? a barrier to communication. Trainees will develop expertise in their home domains and rigorous interdisciplinary training, providing broad and deep knowledge of theories and methods of other domains to communicate, collaborate and innovate in multidisciplinary teams. The training program uses a team-based model, in an environment designed to foster creativity and innovation ? along with integrated coursework and training in how to translate that research to educational, technological, and health applications.Broader Impacts: This IGERT award will prepare a new generation of leaders to conduct (and train others to conduct) the team-based basic and applied research needed to achieve a unified biological-cognitive science of language. Key components include: training to communicate with educators, policy makers and the public in innovative ways that address societal challenges in technology and education; comprehensive efforts to increase participation among historically underrepresented groups in science; and preparing trainees for the increasingly international scientific community through on-site and internet-based opportunities to connect with leading cognitive and biological centers of language research around the world.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 establish new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries, and to engage students in understanding the processes by which research is translated to innovations for societal benefit.