REU Site: The Temporal Dynamics of Learning

学习时间动态中心（UCSD）的教师和研究人员参与REU网站的总体目标是为本科生提供一种研究经验，从而在一个新的跨学科领域研究时间和时间在学习中的作用，在多个时间和空间尺度上，从毫秒时间尺度上的突触操作到教师和学生数月互动的尺度。该项目允许团队让REU学生访问该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，由高度跨学科和协作的教师，博士后，研究生和本科生组成的研究网络的定期会议，来自美国，加拿大和澳大利亚的超过17个机构，以及一年一度的全体会议，在那里他们展示他们的成果。除了REU学生在个别实验室接受培训外，REU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专业发展机会。这一提议的智力价值在于，通过本科生在高生产率实验室的研究经历，以及在合作而非竞争研究方面的培训，推动了一门关于学习时间动力学的新科学的发展。该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。更广泛的影响从当地社区大学招募了大量未被充分代表的少数民族（因为这是一个学年计划），从而培养了一个多元化的未来科学家群体，推动了从多个角度学习的科学。pi团队利用与这些机构建立的工作关系，以确保从荣誉项目中获得足够的申请人，并使用他们教授的推荐，以便他们可以在项目中招收最好的学生。该站点由国防部与NSF REU项目合作资助。

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.