Emergence, structure and neurobiological basis of typical and atypical language

描述（由申请人提供）：两名新研究员将被聘为终身职位（在资助后至少有4年的资金）。这些职位的招聘被冻结了。额外的经济影响来自于额外雇用的两名全职技术人员和实验室启动费用。这两项招聘是跨学科的。心理学和语言学将联合任命一名研究员，沟通障碍和心理学将联合任命另一名研究员。这些招聘将促进认知科学语言核心研究中心的形成。这个核心的基础是在过去十年中通过认知科学项目和三个任命部门的协调建立起来的。我们将利用这些招聘来促进我们在NIDCD核心领域的多学科和转化研究的潜力。我们将聘请的新研究人员不仅在自身领域出类拔萃，而且对衔接基础研究和转化研究也有浓厚的兴趣，他们将带来理想的研究项目和技能，以在我们的三个部门之间建立桥梁。这些招聘将不仅仅是填补空缺；我们已经制定了一个计划，在培养新研究人员的同时，建立永久性的结构、机制和活动，以促进康涅狄格大学跨学科和翻译语言研究。

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.