Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

请参阅说明)： 该培训计划的目标是培养下一代具有以下技能的发展科学家 以及在理解人类思维发展方面取得真正进展所需的知识和知识 以及非典型发育如何导致儿科认知和情感障碍。为此，我们的 学生将接受关于发展认知神经科学的多种方法的培训，以便他们能够 在人类认知发展的行为研究、计算理论和 学习和发展，以及大脑发育的生物机制。具体地说，除了收到 作为发展认知科学传统方法的坚实基础，我们的学生将接受培训 在发展研究的六个新前沿领域，我们部正在积极开展这些领域的研究。第一, 计算机科学和机器学习的进步导致了新的计算模型(例如， 归纳推理)，这是第一次为许多长期存在的问题提供真正的牵引力 认知发展；这项工作涉及与计算机科学和人工智能教师的合作 实验室。第二，心理语言学、语言学和心理学之间的融合达到了一个新的水平 神经科学有助于理解语言。第三，加强两国之间的联系 在传统的开发工作和神经科学方面，我们的教员现在正在推进 发展认知神经科学，例如通过开发使我们能够进行功能磁共振成像的方法 对更小的孩子进行扫描。第四，我们中的许多人都关注社会认知，这不仅是 构成了认知的核心领域，但它还包括许多组成部分的机制，这些机制是 很可能在其他认知领域的发展中起到必要的作用。第五，几乎每个人都在 我们小组正在将他们在正常发育方面的工作与发展的平行研究结合起来。 障碍，包括自闭症、阅读障碍和特殊语言障碍。此外，我们的许多成员 该部门正在研究大脑发育障碍的生物学机制。 最后，我们系的许多教员正在研究大脑的基本神经机制 发展，这个领域在理解认知发展方面将变得越来越重要，因为 在接下来的十年里，认知科学和神经科学之间的联系会加强。通过密集的 接触所有这些领域，我们的学生将处于塑造未来研究的理想地位 认知发展。 相关性(请参阅说明)： 拟议的培训方案将在#年提供跨学科和跨机构的研究生培训 发展认知神经科学。接受过这种培训的学生将准备好表演尖端表演 关于影响数百万儿童的儿童发育障碍的研究，包括自闭症、ADHD、 阅读障碍、儿童双相情感障碍、抑郁症和精神分裂症。 了解这些障碍的心理和神经基础应该是加强 诊断和治疗这些精神疾病。

See instructions): The goal of this training program is to train the next generation of developmental scientists with the skills and knowledge necessary to make real headway in understanding the development of the human mind and brain and how atypical development leads to pediatric disorders of cognition and emotion. To this end, our students will be trained in multiple approaches to developmental cognitive neuroscience, so that they can forge links between behavioral studies of cognitive development in humans, computational theories of learning and development, and biologicalmechanismsof brain development. Specifically, beyond receiving a firm foundation in traditional approaches to developmental cognitive science, our students will be trained in six new frontier areas of developmental research that are being actively pursued in our Department. First, advances in computer science and machine learning have led to new computational models (e.g.,of inductive inference) that are for the first time providing real traction on many longstanding problems in cognitive development; this work involves collaborations with faculty in the Computer Science and AI Laboratory. Second, there has been a new level of integration among psycholinguistic, linguistic, and neuroscience approaches towards understanding language. Third, to enhance the connection between traditional developmental work and neuroscience, our faculty are now advancing the technical frontiers of developmental cognitive neuroscience, for example by developing methods that enable us to conduct fMRI scans on ever younger children. Fourth, many of us are focusing on social cognition, which not only constitutes a core domain of cognition, but which further includes many component mechanisms that are likely to play a necessary role in the development of other domains of cognition. Fifth, virtually everyone in our group is integrating their work on normal development with parallel studies of developmental disorders, including autism, dyslexia, and specific language impairment. In addition, many members of our Department are working on the biological mechanisms underlying developmental disorders of the brain. Finally, many faculty in our Department are investigating the basic neural mechanisms of brain development, an area that will be increasingly important in understanding cognitive development as the links between cognitive science and neuroscience strengthen over the next decade. Through intensive exposure to all of these areas, our students will be ideally positioned to shape the future of research in cognitive development. RELEVANCE (See instructions): The proposed training program would provide interdisciplinary and inter-institutional graduate training in developmental cognitive neuroscience. Students with this training will be prepared to perform cutting-edge research on pediatric developmental disorders that affect millions of children, including autism, ADHD, dyslexia, pediatric bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia. Understanding the psychological and neural bases of these disorders ought to be fundamental to enhancing diagnosis and treatment for these psychiatric diseases.