Emergence, structure and neurobiological basis of typical and atypical language

描述(由申请人提供)：将聘用两名新的调查员担任终身教职跟踪职位(最低资助期限为4年)。对这些职位的寻找因招聘冻结而先发制人。额外的经济影响来自额外雇佣的两名全职技术人员和实验室启动支出。这两名员工是跨学科的。一名调查员将被联合任命为心理学和语言学，另一名将被联合任命为沟通障碍和心理学。这些招聘将促进认知科学语言核心研究中心的形成。这一核心的基础是在过去十年中通过认知科学方案和三个指定部门的协调而建立的。我们将利用这些招聘来促进我们在NIDCD核心领域进行多学科和转化性研究的潜力。我们将聘请的新调查人员本身就是一流的，但也对衔接基础研究和翻译研究有着浓厚的兴趣，并带来了非常适合在我们三个部门之间架起桥梁的研究项目和技能。这些招聘不仅仅是填补空白；我们已经制定了一项计划，同时培养新调查人员的发展，同时创建永久性结构、机制和活动，促进康涅狄格州大学的跨学科和翻译语言研究。 与公共卫生相关：2名教员调查员将被聘用，并在2个系(心理学和语言学或沟通障碍和心理学)联合任命。计划开展的活动将促进和加快目前在典型和非典型语言结构、处理和发展方面的基础研究和应用研究之间的联系。由此产生的翻译研究在改善理解和干预方面具有巨大的潜力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Two new investigators will be hired into tenure track positions (with a minimum funding for 4 years beyond the grant). The searches for these positions were pre-empted by a hiring freeze. Additional economic impact comes from two additional full-time technicians to be hired and laboratory startup spending. The two hires are interdisciplinary. One investigator will be jointly appointed in Psychology and Linguistics, and the other will be jointly appointed in Communication Disorders and Psychology. These hires will catalyze the formation of a Cognitive Science Language Core research center. The foundations for this Core has been built over the last decade through coordination of the Cognitive Science Program and the three appointing departments. We will leverage these hires to catalyze our potential for multidisciplinary and translational research in core NIDCD areas. The new investigators we would hire are stellar in their own right, but also have deep interest in bridging basic and translational research, and bring research programs and skill sets that are ideal for building bridges among our three departments. These hires will do more than simply fill gaps; we have crafted a plan that would simultaneously nurture the development of the new investigators while creating permanent structures, mechanisms, and events that will facilitate interdisciplinary and translational language research at UConn. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: 2 faculty investigators will be hired and jointly appointed in 2 departments (Psychology and Linguistics or Communication Disorders and Psychology). Planned activities will facilitate and accelerate ongoing efforts at bridging basic and applied research in typical and atypical language structure, processing and development. The resulting translational research has great potential for improving understanding and intervention.