Training in Cognitive Psychophysiology

描述（由申请人提供）：申请认知心理生理学研究培训项目的继续支持。该培训项目对心理生理学技术日益渗透到行为和生物科学的许多领域做出了回应。心理生理学技术包括电磁、血液动力学和光学神经成像方法，以及更多外围身体功能的测量（如眼动、心率、皮电活动和肌电图，我们在所有这些方面都有专业知识）。在心理学、精神病学、神经科学、生物工程、放射学、物理学和其他领域的许多分支学科中受过训练的科学家正在采用这些测量方法来攻击精神疾病。为基础科学家、临床科学家和转化科学家提供认知复杂心理生理学方面的培训是一种迫切的、甚至是加速的需求。该项目的教师是活跃的科学家，他们有着不同的背景和兴趣，他们来自心理学、精神病学、生物工程、统计学、电子和计算机工程系，以及跨部门神经科学项目和贝克曼研究所，重点是功能磁共振成像、ERP和光学方法，以及它们彼此之间的整合，以及与其他方法的整合，特别是MEG和眼动。该培训项目将核心教师及其研究生和博士后聚集在一个异常丰富的环境中，就不同的奖学金和优良的设施而言，通过课程和密集的研究学徒制，提供认知心理生理学方面的全面培训。下一个资助周期将扩大对精神病理学的接触和高级生物信号处理的培训，以研究大脑对精神的实施及其在精神疾病中的破坏。16名核心教师将提供4名博士预科生和3名博士后实习生。相关性：认知心理生理学的培训直接解决了NIMH理解精神疾病大脑机制的优先事项。评估和干预策略将在一定程度上有利于我们识别异常心理现象的大脑实现。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Support is requested for the continuation of a research training program in cognitive psychophysiology. The training program responds to the increasing penetration of psychophysiological techniques into many domains of the behavioral and biological sciences. Psychophysiological techniques include electromagnetic, hemodynamic, and optical neuroimaging methods, as well as measures of more peripheral bodily functions (such as eye movement, heart rate, electrodermal activity, and electromyography, in all of which we have expertise). Scientists trained in many subdisciplines of psychology, psychiatry, neurocience, bioengineering, radiology, physics, and other fields are adopting these measurement approaches to attack mental illness. There is a pressing and even accelerating need to provide training in cognitively sophisticated psychophysiology for basic, clinical, and translational scientists. The program faculty are active scientists with diverse backgrounds and interests, based in the Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry, Bioengineering, Statistics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as the interdepartmental Neuroscience Program and the Beckman Institute, emphasizing fMRI, ERP, and optical methods and their integration with each other and with other methods, especially MEG and eye movement. The training program brings the core faculty members and their graduate students and postdocs together in an exceptionally rich environment, in terms of both diverse scholarship and excellent facilities, that provides thorough training in cognitive psychophysiology through coursework and an intensive research apprenticeship, augmented in the next funding cycle by broadened exposure to psychopathology and training in advanced biosignal processing for studying the implementation of the mind by the brain and its disruption in mental illness. Sixteen core faculty will be available to 4 predoc and 3 postdoc trainees. Relevance: Training in cognitive psychophysiology directly addresses NIMH priorities for understanding brain mechanisms in mental illness. Assessment and intervention strategies will benefit to the extent we identify brain implementations of abnormal psychological phenomena.