Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：22年来，认知神经科学暑期学院汇集了认知神经科学领域的领导者、有前途的研究生、博士后研究人员和年轻教授/科学家，进行为期两周的密集讲座和实验课程，旨在探讨该学科的前沿话题。该提案寻求为该计划的延续提供五年的资金。暑期学院的重点是跟上该领域的最新进展，并使参与者接触到最新的快速出现的方法和发现。通过讲座、辩论、学院参与者之间的密切互动和实验室演示的结合，使用先进的技术，如功能性神经成像、经颅磁刺激和事件相关电位，为参与者提供了一个强烈而丰富的机会，让他们接触到广泛的技术和方法，这些技术和方法涵盖了与精神和大脑有关的所有领域。暑期学院的跨学科性质是其最显著的特点和宝贵的资产。未来5年，学院将继续其成功的传统，同时也提供创新，以显着扩大和加强该计划。认知神经科学暑期研究所通过为国家的年轻科学家提供独特的培训，促进跨学科的观点和合作，并鼓励已建立的科学领袖和年轻有前途的研究人员之间的跨学科交流，为该领域提供了重要的服务。该研究所通过引起人们对当前发现前沿问题的关注和推进知识，直接为该领域的进步做出贡献，这些问题与NIH在基础和转化研究和培训方面的使命有关。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For 22 years, the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience has brought together leaders in Cognitive Neuroscience and promising graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and young professors/scientists for an intensive, two-week lecture and laboratory course aimed at topics on the cutting-edge of the discipline. This proposal seeks five years of funding for the program's continuation. The Summer Institute focuses on staying up-to-date with the field's latest advancements and exposes its participants to the latest rapidly emerging methods and discoveries. Through a combination of lectures, debates, close interaction among Institute attendees, and laboratory demonstrations, using advanced techniques such as functional neuroimaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and event-related potentials, participants are provided with an intense and rich exposure to a broad array of techniques and approaches bisecting all fields bearing on the mind and brain. The intensely interdisciplinary nature of the Summer Institute is its most defining feature and valuable asset. The next 5 years of the Institute will continue its successful traditions, while also providing innovations to significantly augment and enhance the program. The Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience provides an essential service to the field by providing the nation's young scientists with unique training that fosters interdisciplinary perspective and collaboration, and by encouraging cross-disciplinary exchange between established scientific leaders and young, promising researchers. The Institute contributes directly to the advancement of the field by calling attention to and advancing knowledge of issues at the frontiers of current discovery that are relevant to the mission of the NIH in basic and translational research and training.