GRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITION

认知神经基础研究生教育

• 批准号: 6190400
• 负责人: James McClelland
• 金额: $ 15.6万
• 依托单位: CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-22 至 2005-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6190400
• 关键词: cognition; health science research potential; neurosciences; postgraduate education; science education

The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition offers an interdisciplinary Ph. D. level educational program intended to create a cohort of excellent researchers who bring the skills, insights, and perspectives from a wide range of existing disciplines into the emerging new discipline of Cognitive Neuroscience. This program has now been in operation for almost 10 years. The program takes students from seven different departments spread over Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh. Students are required to pursue a course of study including four core courses (Basic Neuroscience, Systems Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Computational Neuroscience) that often overlap very little with the core requirements of their home departments. Students also participate in a series of student and faculty research presentations, a student-run colloquium series and an annual retreat in which current issues are considered through a combination of research presentations and discussion groups focusing on special issues within the broad range of scientific activities encompassed by the Center for the Neural basis of Cognition, and students are encouraged to attend national and international meetings to gain exposure to contemporary research. There are currently 51 participants in the program, and the program's 17 graduates are all pursuing research careers, many of them either as assistant professors or as post-doctoral fellows in outstanding laboratories. We are adding a new research ethics series to the program and are joining in a broad recruitment effort to increase diversity among the participants. The program has been supported since its inception by an NSF research training grant that has now run its course and is not renewable. The current proposal seeks funding to allow the continuation of this program.

认知的神经基础中心提供了一个跨学科的博士级教育项目，旨在培养一批优秀的研究人员，他们将广泛的现有学科的技能、见解和观点带入新兴的认知神经科学学科。这个项目已经运行了近10年。该项目招收来自卡内基梅隆大学和匹兹堡大学七个不同院系的学生。学生必须学习包括四门核心课程（基础神经科学、系统神经科学、认知神经科学和计算神经科学）的课程，这些课程通常与他们所在院系的核心要求很少重叠。学生们还参加一系列学生和教师的研究报告，学生主持的系列讨论会和年度务静会，在这些务静会中，通过研究报告和讨论小组的组合来考虑当前的问题，这些小组侧重于认知神经基础中心所涵盖的广泛的科学活动中的特殊问题，鼓励学生参加国内和国际会议，以接触当代研究。该项目目前有51名参与者，17名毕业生都在从事研究工作，其中许多人要么是助理教授，要么是杰出实验室的博士后研究员。我们正在为该项目增加一个新的研究伦理系列，并加入广泛的招募工作，以增加参与者的多样性。该项目从一开始就得到了美国国家科学基金会研究培训基金的支持，该基金现在已经结束，并且不能续期。目前的提案寻求资金以使该计划得以继续。