Training in Hearing & Communication Neuroscience

参见说明）： 南加州大学神经科学研究生项目（DSC NGP）和众议院耳 研究所（HEI）共同提出建立一个独特的研究培训计划，为博士前，博士后， 和研究生医生-科学家学者：南加州大学/HEI听力和沟通神经科学 培训计划。该计划汇集了广泛的科学家，以加强跨学科 沟通，并提供了独特的优势，提供研究培训机会，桥梁 基础科学与临床听力和通信应用。该计划将进一步巩固 凯克文学艺术与科学学院科学家之间的研究和培训互动 医学院，维特比工程学院在DSC，和HEI。该计划将联合收割机 一个杰出的研究小组的优势，专注于听力和沟通的基本方面， 南加州大学神经科学研究生课程和HEI的资源，以及临床方面的专业知识， 耳科卓越的HEI。这个建议的基本原理是从事博士前，博士后， 在一个高度互动和多学科的培训经验，从细胞 从生物学到认知神经科学和语言学，不受传统部门的限制， 并积极促进他们作为独立科学家的发展。我们提出四个博士预科和两个 博士后学者每年对任何一位学者最多支持两年。之一 博士后学者可以是从HEI临床研究奖学金或 南加州大学耳鼻喉科住院医师计划。博士前的学员通常会加入该计划期间， 第二年的研究生培训，而参与的博士后学员的资历水平 程序会有所不同。所有受训人员将接受与听力和沟通有关的所有方面的培训。 研究和实践技能，这将为他们在独立资助的研究，教育， 和行业使学员直接接触基础科学前沿研究以及 正在进行的临床研究和应用是该计划的主要和独特的优势。 相关性（参见说明）： 这项建议的重点是直接与言语和语言障碍有关的研究和培训 和沟通障碍。这项培训计划将有助于培养一批科学家， 解决有关听觉和声音交流的基本问题。这些人不会 这只会促进我们对广泛的语音识别的生物学和行为学基础的理解， 沟通障碍，但也将产生创新的诊断和治疗应用。

See instructions): The University of Southern California Neuroscience Graduate Program (DSC NGP) and the House Ear Institute (HEI) together propose to establish a unique research training program for predoctoral, postdoctoral, and postgraduate physician-scientist scholars: the USC/HEI Hearing and Communication Neuroscience Training Program. The program brings together a broad spectrum of scientists to enhance inter-disciplinary communication, and offers the unique advantage of providing research training opportunities that bridge basic science with clinical hearing and communications applications. The program will further solidify the research and training interactions between scientists in the College of Letters Arts & Sciences, the Keck School of Medicine, the Viterbi School of Engineering at DSC, and HEI. The program will combine the strengths of an outstanding group of researchers focused on basic aspects of hearing and communication, the resources of the USC Graduate Program in Neuroscience and the HEI,and the expertise in clinical otologic excellence of the HEI. The rationale of this proposal is to engage predoctoral, postdoctoral, and physician-scientist trainees in a highly interactive and multidisciplinary training experience ranging from cell biology to cognitive neuroscience and linguistics that is unfettered by conventional departmental barriers, and actively facilitates their development as independent scientists. We propose four predoctoral and two postdoctoral scholars per year for a maximum of two years support for any one scholar. One of the postdoctoral scholars can be a physician-scientist recruited from the HEI Clinical Research Fellowship or the USC Otolaryngology Residency Program. Pre-doctoral trainees will typically join the program during the second year of their graduate training, whereas the level of seniority of post-doctoral trainees participating in the program will vary. All trainees will receive training in all aspects of hearing- and communication-related research and practical skills that will prepare them for careers in independently-funded research, education, and industry. The ability to expose trainees directly to both cutting-edge research in basic science as well as ongoing clinical research and applications is a major and unique strength of the program. RELEVANCE (See instructions): This proposal focuses on research and training that are directly relevant to speech and language disorders and communication disabilities in humans. This training program will help prepare a cadre of scientists to address fundamental questions pertaining to hearing and vocal communication. These individuals will not only advance our understanding of biologic and behavioral bases of a broad spectrum of auditory-vocal communication disorders, but will also generate innovative diagnostic and therapeutic applications.