Scientific and Administrative Core

科学和行政核心

• 批准号: 7813310
• 负责人: DAVID A WASHBURN
• 金额: $ 22.94万
• 依托单位: GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-12-01 至 2014-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7813310
• 关键词: Adult; Animals; Attention; Behavior; Behavioral; Capuchin Monkey; Child; Child Behavior; Cognition; Cognitive; Cognitive Science; Collaborations; Comparative Psychology; Data; Development; Documentation; Face; Funding; Genetic; Growth; Human; Individual; Intervention; Language; Language Development; Learning; Literature; Macaca mulatta; Maintenance; Memory; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Neuropsychology; Organism; Pan Genus; Perception; Performance; Pongidae; Population; Primates; Problem Solving; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Support; Resources; Role; Scientist; Structure; Sum; Task Performances; Technology; Testing; Time; Training; Universities; Work; animal resource; base; brain size; combinatorial; cost; data sharing; developmental psychology; disability; executive function; experience; language training; neuroimaging; nonhuman primate; operation; programs; social; web site

This new program-project proposal reflects the next step in a unique, productive, and important program of research that spans comparative psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and neuropsychology. Funding from NICHD serves as the majority means of support for the research at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University, a world-renowned resource for the study of language and cognition across primate species. A colony of unique and wonderful animals have been raised, trained, maintained and tested with NICHD support to communicate and to comprehend, to count and to perform elementary combinatorial operations, and to demonstrate a range of other cognitive abilities that make them singularly suitable for comparison to human adults and children. The historical antecedents of the present proposal are outlined below. In the eartier funding cycles at the Language Research Center, scientists examined the degree to which apes could acquire human-like language. They further explored the applicability of principles derived from this research into intervention for children with communicative disabilities. In the most recent funding cycles, our research focus shifted to "How does language training alter cognitive competency?" That is, "What can an organism do following language training that it couldn't do otherwise?" or more broadly, "What is the role of language in cognition?" Answering these questions involves the documentation of the cognitive abilities of language-experienced apes, comparison of these apes' performance with task performance by chimpanzees without language training (including those tested by our scientists as well as those in the literature), examination of what other nonhuman primates (e.g., rhesus monkeys) can do in the absence of language abilities, and comparison of nonhuman pnmates' cognitive abilities to those observed for human adults and children with normal language development. In the present proposal, we continue and significantly expand this tradition, including again the comparison of nonhuman primate behavior to the behavior of children and adults as a research strategy and intervention with specific populations of children and adults in a translational strategy. At the same time, the present programproject represents a significant expansion with respect to nonhuman primate species being studied. With the acquisition of a capuchin monkey colony at the Language Research Center, our capacity is much greater for comparing cognitive competencies across three nonhuman species (with very different brain sizes and developments, very different social structures, and very different documented learning histories). Finally, the present proposal also represents an expansion with respect to number and range of cognitive competencies to be studied, as we propose to test the generality across species of principles denved from the systematic study of learning, perception, attention, executive function, metacognition, categorization, memory, behavioral selfregulation, and problem solving. Given this growth, it was determined that the present proposal was better cast as a new program-project rather than as a continuation of our previous research program.

这一新的方案-项目提案反映了一个独特的、富有成效的、重要的研究方案的下一步，该方案横跨比较心理学、认知心理学、发展心理学和神经心理学。来自NICHD的资金是佐治亚州立大学语言研究中心研究的主要支持手段，该中心是研究灵长类物种语言和认知的世界知名资源。在NICHD的支持下，一群独特而奇妙的动物被饲养、训练、维护和测试，以交流和理解、计算和执行基本的组合运算，并展示一系列其他认知能力，使它们非常适合与人类成年人和儿童进行比较。现在的历史先例 提案概述如下。 在语言研究中心更早的资助周期中，科学家们检查了猿类获得类似人类语言的程度。他们进一步探讨了从这项研究中得出的原则在干预沟通障碍儿童方面的适用性。在最近的几个资金周期中，我们的研究重点转向了“语言训练如何改变认知能力？”也就是说，“在语言训练之后，一个有机体能做什么，否则它不能做什么？”或者更广泛地说，“语言在认知中的作用是什么？”回答这些问题包括记录有语言经验的类人猿的认知能力，将这些类人猿的表现与没有语言训练的黑猩猩的任务表现进行比较(包括我们的科学家测试的和文献中的)，检查其他非人类灵长类动物(例如恒河猴)在缺乏语言能力的情况下能做什么，以及将非人类囚犯的认知能力与语言发育正常的成人和儿童的认知能力进行比较。 在目前的提案中，我们继续并显著扩展这一传统，包括再次将非人类灵长类行为与儿童和成人的行为进行比较，作为一种研究策略，并在翻译策略中对特定的儿童和成人群体进行干预。同时，目前的计划项目代表着对正在研究的非人类灵长类物种的重大扩展。随着语言研究中心收购了一个卷尾猴群体，我们在比较三个非人类物种(具有非常不同的大脑大小和发育、非常不同的社会结构和非常不同的有记录的学习历史)的认知能力方面的能力要大得多。最后，本研究还代表了对认知能力的数量和范围的扩展，因为我们建议测试学习、知觉、注意、执行功能、元认知、分类、记忆、行为自我调节和问题解决的系统研究所产生的跨种类原则的共性。考虑到这一增长，决定本提案更好地作为一个新的方案项目，而不是作为我们先前研究方案的延续。