TRAINING IN NEUROSCIENCE OF LANGUAGE AND ITS DISORDERS

培训计划的目标是提供一个环境，鼓励人们进行研究，将大脑/行为关系研究的新兴方法应用到语言和语言障碍的主题上。过去十年来，理论和技术的进步促进了认知神经科学领域的发展，认知神经科学研究认知过程是如何在大脑中进行的。这个项目被认为是这一总体努力的一部分，特别强调与语言相关的认知过程。提出这一建议的教职员工代表了认知心理学和神经心理学、计算机科学、生理学、语言学、神经学和神经解剖学等学科，但他们都从事语言/大脑关系的研究。这些教师将担任临床领域(如言语/语言病理学或临床神经心理学)或基础科学学科(如计算机科学、神经科学、语言学或心理学)的博士后实习生的导师。该培训计划强调在主要导师的指导下进行实践/实践研究培训，并辅之以确保与其他教员进行广泛接触和相关学科经验的措施。现有的培训设施支持的技术包括计算(神经网络)建模、对正常受试者和失语症患者的认知神经心理学调查、使用功能磁共振成像对语言活动进行功能神经成像、在认知任务期间从头皮记录事件相关电位的研究，以及对大脑损伤影响的神经解剖学研究。两名第一年和第二年的研究员将在该计划第一年后得到支持，受训人员通常将在两年内完成该计划。培训的长期目标是培养独立的研究人员，他们将利用认知神经科学领域提供的技术，从事与语言和语言障碍有关的主题的科学研究。

The goal of the Training Program is to provide an environment that will encourage the pursuit of research that applies emerging methods for the study of brain/behavior relationships to the topic of language and language disorders Theoretical and technical advances in the last decade have encouraged the development of the field of Cognitive Neuroscience- the study of how cognitive processes are carried out in the development of the field of Cognitive Neuroscience-the study of how cognitive processes are carried out in the brain. This program is conceived as a part of that general effort, with special emphasis on the cognitive processes that are related to language. The faculty members contributing to this proposal represent the academic disciplines of Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology, Computer Science, Physiology, Linguistics, Neurology and Neuroanatomy, yet all of them are engaged in research investigating language/brain relationships. These faculty members will serve as mentors for post-doctoral trainees from clinical fields such as Speech/Language Pathology or Clinical Neuropsychology, or from basic science disciplines such as Computer Science, Neuroscience, Linguistics or Psychology. The training program emphasizes hands/on research training with a primary mentor, supplemented by measures that assure a breadth of contact with other faculty and experience in related disciplines. Available training facilities support techniques employing computational (neural network) modeling, cognitive neuropsychological investigation of normal subjects and aphasic patients, functional neuroimaging of language activities using fMRI, study of Event Related Potentials recorded from scalp during cognitive tasks, and neuroanatomical study of the effects of brain lesions. Tow first-year and second-year Fellows will be supported after the first year of the program, and trainees will typically complete the program within two years. The long-term goal of training is to produce independent investigators who will pursue a career of scientific research on topics related to language and language disorders using techniques available from the field of cognitive neuroscience.