GORDON CONFERENCE ON NEUROETHOLOGY

戈登神经行为学会议

• 批准号: 6022021
• 负责人: JOHN G HILDEBRAND
• 金额: $ 0.8万
• 依托单位: GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-08-01 至 2000-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6022021
• 关键词: animal communication behavior; arousal; developmental neurobiology; ethology; learning; meeting /conference /symposium; motion perception; neural information processing; orientation; travel; visual perception

Funds are requested to help support the first Gordon Research Conference on Neuroethology, to be held on 29 August - 3 September 1999 at Queen's College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. Funds received from NIH would be used to defray partially the travel and meeting costs incurred by invited speakers and session chairs/discussion leaders from the USA. In addition, registration and travel scholarships are requested for young investigators (postdocs and graduate students) from the USA, with preference to be given to members of under-represented groups. The Conference will focus on selected, important topics in the interrelated and overlapping fields of animal behavior, neurobiology, and evolutionary and comparative organismal biology in relation to neuroethology. Emphasis will be placed on sensory mechanisms underlying specific adaptive behaviors, and topics chosen for treatment in this conference are ones regarded as currently undergoing conceptual and technological growth. All of the invited speakers and session chairs/discussion leaders are experts in their fields of science who have been selected by the meeting organizers with the assistance of an ad-hoc committee of advisors. Special attention has been given to achieving a balanced mixture of women and men among the invitees, as well as representation of a variety of research preparations, technical approaches, and levels of analysis. In contrast to other meetings on neuroethology (e.g. the triennial International Congresses of Neuroethology), or on related fields such as neuroscience (e.g. the annual meetings of the Society for Neuroscience), this new Gordon Research Conference will be restrictive in scope and attendance in order to encourage and facilitate open, animated, and critical group discussion of ideas, experimental findings, and future research initiatives. The need for such a meeting arises from dramatic recent growth of knowledge in all of the interrelated fields that are central to the conference, including neuroscience, neuroethological mechanisms, evolutionary and comparative animal biology, biomimetic robotics, and sensory sciences. The principal aim of the new conference is to create an open forum, according to the well established and highly respected Gordon Research Conference format, in which experts and trainees in areas of science central to the meeting focus can share their most recent findings, ideas, and speculations and foster new research collaborations.

首届戈登神经行为学研究会议将于1999年8月29日至9月3日在英国牛津大学皇后学院举行。从国立卫生研究院收到的资金将用于支付来自美国的特邀演讲者和会议主席/讨论领导人的部分旅费和会议费用。此外，还为来自美国的年轻研究人员(博士后和研究生)申请注册和旅行奖学金，优先考虑任职人数不足的群体成员。会议将集中在动物行为、神经生物学以及与神经行为学有关的进化和比较有机体生物学等相互关联和重叠的领域中选定的重要主题。重点将放在特定适应行为背后的感觉机制上，本次会议选择的治疗主题被认为是目前正在经历概念和技术发展的主题。所有受邀的发言者和会议主席/讨论负责人都是由会议组织者在特设顾问委员会的协助下挑选的各自科学领域的专家。特别注意在受邀者中实现男女比例的平衡，以及各种研究准备、技术方法和分析水平的代表性。与其他神经行为学会议(如三年一度的国际神经行为学大会)或神经科学等相关领域的会议(如神经科学学会的年度会议)不同，这一新的戈登研究会议在范围和出席人数方面将受到限制，以鼓励和促进关于想法、实验结果和未来研究倡议的公开、生动和批判性的小组讨论。召开这样一次会议的需要源于会议中心所有相关领域知识的急剧增长，这些领域包括神经科学、神经行为学机制、进化和比较动物生物学、仿生机器人和感官科学。新会议的主要目的是按照公认和备受推崇的戈登研究会议形式创建一个开放论坛，会议中心科学领域的专家和受训人员可以在其中分享他们最新的发现、想法和推测，并促进新的研究合作。