CAREER: NEURAL-COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF READING (AND READING IMPAIRMENT) IN INDIVIDUALS

职业：个人阅读（和阅读障碍）的神经计算分析

• 批准号: 1252975
• 负责人: Sarah Laszlo
• 金额: $ 40.08万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Binghamton
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1252975&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; NEURAL; COMPUTATIONAL; ANALYSIS; READING

The ability to read has important economic and social consequences. Adults that cannot read face disadvantages in the work force and as a result sometimes suffer from mental health problems like depression. Children that have difficulty learning to read, in addition to being at risk for depression, also suffer from increased rates of bullying and can experience poorer relationships with their parents and teachers, when compared with children that learn to read normally. A crucial task for the psychological and educational sciences is to ensure that the best possible tools are available for making sure that every elementary school student has the maximum possible chance for reading success. This project will contribute to that goal by characterizing the brain states of children learning how to read in a more in-depth manner than has ever been done before. The team will create a new, detailed picture of the different strategies individuals use to become successful readers, and what goes wrong in those strategies in individuals that struggle with reading. This picture will be based on a combination of measures ranging from report card scores to the signature activity that occurs in the brain when a word is successfully identified.The principle investigator has pledged to work closely with doctors at her area's leading center for developmental science (the Binghamton University Institute for Child Development) to make sure that the results of the tudy are immediately put in to practice in a responsible manner, so that children in the community can start enjoying the benefits of the work as soon as possible. The research team further pledges to make the (anonymous) results of the study available publicly, on the internet, so that educators and researchers everywhere can use the new information collected through this project to aid students in their own communities. Because the results will be available so widely, many more research groups will be able to interpret and extend what is found than would be the case if the results were not so extensively shared. This means that the work started here has the potential to ignite a new era of investigation, nation and world-wide, that seeks to use the human brain to inform literacy education as it never has before.

阅读能力具有重要的经济和社会后果。不识字的成年人在劳动力中面临不利条件，因此有时会患上抑郁症等心理健康问题。与学习正常阅读的孩子相比，学习阅读困难的孩子除了有抑郁的风险外，还会遭受更高的欺凌发生率，与父母和老师的关系可能会更差。心理和教育科学的一项关键任务是确保有最好的工具可用，以确保每个小学生都有最大可能的机会阅读成功。这个项目将通过比以往任何时候都更深入地描述学习如何阅读的儿童的大脑状态来为这一目标做出贡献。该团队将创建一幅新的、详细的图景，展示个人成为成功读者所使用的不同策略，以及那些在阅读方面遇到困难的人在这些策略中出了什么问题。这张图片将基于从成绩单分数到当成功识别一个单词时大脑中的标志性活动的综合测量。首席调查员承诺与所在地区领先的发展科学中心(宾厄姆顿大学儿童发展研究所)的医生密切合作，确保研究结果立即以负责任的方式付诸实践，以便社区的儿童能够尽快开始享受这项工作的好处。研究小组进一步承诺，将在互联网上公开(匿名)研究结果，以便世界各地的教育工作者和研究人员可以使用通过该项目收集的新信息来帮助自己社区的学生。由于结果将被广泛获得，比起结果没有被广泛分享的情况，更多的研究小组将能够解释和扩展所发现的内容。这意味着，从这里开始的这项工作有可能点燃一个全国和世界范围内的调查新时代，寻求以前所未有的方式利用人脑为扫盲教育提供信息。