REU Site: The Temporal Dynamics of Learning

加州大学时间动力学学习中心(UCSD)的教职员工和研究人员致力于REU网站，总体目标是为本科生提供研究体验，导致在一个新的跨学科领域发表可发表的工作，研究时间和计时在多个时间和空间尺度上的学习中的作用，从在毫秒时间尺度上运行的突触的规模到几个月的教师和学生互动的规模。该项目允许REU学生使用中心的所有设施和活动，包括最先进的运动捕捉/脑动力学设施，由来自美国、加拿大和澳大利亚超过17个机构的高度跨学科和协作性的教师、博士后、研究生和本科生组成的研究网络定期会议，以及每年一次的全体会议，他们在会上展示他们的结果。除了REU学生在个别实验室接受的培训外，还通过研讨会、本科生研究会议、小组讨论和GRE准备课程提供广泛的职业发展机会。智力价值这一建议的智力价值是通过在高生产率实验室的本科生研究经验和协作而不是竞争性研究的培训，促进学习时间动力学这一新科学的发展。这一研究领域本质上是跨学科的，结合了认知科学、心理学和计算机科学。广泛的影响相当多的代表性不足的少数族裔是从当地社区大学招募的(因为这是一个学年项目)，结果是培养了一批从多个角度推动学习科学的未来科学家。PI-Team利用与这些机构建立的工作关系，以确保从荣誉计划中获得足够的申请者，并利用他们的教授的推荐，以便他们可以在该计划中招收最好的学生。该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划共同资助。

The faculty and researchers in the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (UCSD) are engaged in REU Site with the overall aim of providing undergraduate students a research experience that leads to publishable work in a new interdisciplinary area studying the role of time and timing in learning, at multiple time and spatial scales, from the scale of synapses operating at the millisecond timescale up to the scale of teachers and students interacting over months. This project allows the team to give REU students access to all of the facilities and activities of the Center, including a state-of-the-art motion capture/brain dynamics facility, regular meetings of research networks composed of highly interdisciplinary and collaborative faculty, postdocs, graduate students and undergraduate researchers from more than seventeen institutions in the US, Canada, and Australia, and a yearly All Hands Meeting where they present their results. In addition to the training REU students receive in the individual laboratories, extensive professional development opportunities are provided through workshops, an undergraduate research conference, panel discussions, and GRE preparation courses.Intellectual MeritThe intellectual merit of this proposal is the advancement of a new science of the Temporal Dynamics of Learning through undergraduate research experiences in highly productive laboratories, and training in collaborative, rather than competitive, research. The research field is inherently interdisciplinary, combining cognitive science, psychology and computer science.Broader ImpactsA significant number of under-represented minorities are recruited from local community colleges (as it is a school-year program), resulting in the training of a diverse group of future scientists advancing the science of learning from multiple perspectives. The PI-team taps into established working relationships with these institutions in order to ensure an adequate applicant pool from the honors program, and use recommendations by their professors so that they can enroll the best students in the program.The site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.