The Neural Basis of Attention: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert Rafal

注意力的神经基础：纪念罗伯特·拉法尔的纪念文集

• 批准号: 1748038
• 负责人: Tony Ro
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1748038&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Neural; Basis; Attention; Festschrift; Honor

At any given instance, there is typically far more information in the world than our visual systems can handle. For example, while reading this sentence, only a small proportion of the letters and words are processed at any given time. Although seemingly simple, the process of selectively attending to some information while ignoring other information requires the orchestration of many different brain areas, each of which contributes differentially towards this feat. This workshop will bring together international experts to discuss how the human brain focuses attention. In addition to covering historical and contemporary perspectives on the neural basis of attention, speakers will pay special tribute to the substantial contributions and influences of Professor Robert Rafal, a cognitive and behavioral neurologist whose career focused on better understanding the neural underpinnings of attention, consciousness, eye movements, and perception. This award will primarily fund travel for deserving students and early career stage researchers in the field and publications costs associated with producing a special edited volume from this meeting.The meeting will take place on March 22-23, 2018 in the Segal Theater of The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The talks and edited volume will highlight some of the important mainstay principles of attention research, as well as ones that have been substantially revised or overturned. Furthermore, unlike most other conferences and workshops, which tend to schedule more established researchers as speakers, this workshop will include speakers of varying experiences and ages, ranging from current and recent students to established senior researchers. Speakers will include several prominent female speakers, which should be especially inspiring for the younger female researchers and attendees. Additionally, specific efforts will be made to include a diverse group of student attendees, including invitations to underrepresented minority high school students and undergraduates in the STEM fields at CUNY, a highly diverse public institution in New York City. The student attendees should greatly benefit from the knowledge to be gained from attending this workshop and may decide to pursue a research or academic career focusing on better understanding the neural basis of attention.

在任何给定的实例中，世界上通常的信息通常比我们的视觉系统所能处理的要多得多。例如，在阅读此句子时，只有一小部分字母和单词在任何给定时间进行处理。尽管看似简单，但是选择性地参与一些信息的过程中忽略其他信息的过程需要编排许多不同的大脑区域，每个大脑区域都对这一壮举有所不同。该研讨会将召集国际专家，讨论人脑如何集中注意力。除了涵盖关注神经基础上的历史和当代观点外，演讲者还将特别致敬罗伯特·拉法尔教授的实质性贡献和影响，罗伯特·拉法尔（Robert Rafal）是一位认知和行为神经科医生，其职业生涯侧重于更好地理解关注，意识，眼睛运动和感知的神经基础。该奖项将主要为应得的学生和该领域的早期职业阶段研究人员提供资金，并与在本次会议上生产特别编辑的卷有关。会议将于2018年3月22日至23日在纽约市市研究生中心的西加尔剧院举行。谈判和编辑卷将突出一些注意力研究的一些重要的主要主要原则，以及经过大量修订或推翻的一些重要原则。此外，与大多数其他会议和研讨会不同，这些会议和研讨会倾向于安排更知名的研究人员作为演讲者，该研讨会将包括各种经验和年龄的演讲者，从当前和最近的学生到建立的高级研究人员。演讲者将包括几位杰出的女演讲者，这应该特别激发年轻的女性研究人员和与会者。此外，还将做出具体的努力，包括一组不同的学生参与者，包括向代表性不足的少数民族高中生和本科生Cuny的邀请，纽约市是一家高度多样化的公共机构Cuny的邀请。学生参与者应从参加该研讨会中获得的知识中受益匪浅，并可能决定从事研究或学术职业，专注于更好地理解关注的神经基础。