Training Program In Visual Neuroscience

摘要 这个培训项目的目标是为博士后研究员提供视觉领域的跨学科培训 神经科学索尔克研究所多年来一直是视觉神经科学社区的所在地， 在方法上富有成效和进步，在以下主题上进行了不同寻常的合作： 共同的兴趣。这个社区现在包括视觉神经生物学中心（CNV）， 包括采用各种实验方法的研究计划-分子，遗传，细胞， 系统，和计算-并解决神经结构和事件的基础视觉感觉， 知觉、认知、视觉引导行为、视觉可塑性、学习、记忆和发展。的 CNV的12个培训学院共同拥有漫长的，多样化的和非常成功的视觉记录 神经科学培训的前和博士后学生。培训计划将在 强调跨学科的研究项目，探索视觉系统的组织和功能 跨越从分子到行为的各个层次，处理处理层次结构中的多个阶段， 使我们能够理解视觉功能的病理。拟议方案的行政结构 包括一个执行委员会与董事T。奥尔布赖特和委员会成员（E。卡拉威河克劳泽利斯， D. O 'Leary和T. Sejnowski）代表我们的研究优势：感知的神经相关性， 神经回路和机制，发育和可塑性，以及视觉功能障碍。培训将 提供一系列现代技术，包括电生理学，神经解剖学，功能磁共振成像，心理物理学， 分子遗传学和理论/计算建模。鉴于博士后申请者的高质量 我们的计划，目前和过去的学员的一贯成功，以及减少私人资金， 在视觉神经科学的培训，我们正在请求支持四名博士后学员，这将确保 保持这种培训，并利用我们的15个NEI支持的研究计划的生产力。

ABSTRACT The goal of this training program is to provide postdoctoral fellows with interdisciplinary training in visual neuroscience. The Salk Institute has for many years been home to a visual neuroscience community that has been highly productive and progressive in its approach, with an unusual degree of collaboration on topics of shared interest. This community now comprises the Center for the Neurobiology of Vision (CNV), which includes research programs that employ a variety of experimental approaches - molecular, genetic, cellular, systems, and computational - and address the neural structures and events that underlie visual sensation, perception, cognition, visually-guided behavior, visual plasticity, learning, memory and development. The twelve training faculty of the CNV collectively boast a lengthy, diverse and highly successful record of visual neuroscience training of both pre- and postdoctoral students. The proposed training program will place emphasis on research projects that are interdisciplinary, explore visual system organization and function across levels ranging from molecules to behavior, address multiple stages in the processing hierarchy and enable understanding of pathologies of visual function. The administrative structure of the proposed program comprises an Executive Committee with director T. Albright and committee members (E. Callaway, R. Krauzlis, D. O'Leary, and T. Sejnowski) representative of our research strengths: neural correlates of perception, neuronal circuits and mechanisms, development and plasticity, and disorders of visual function. Training will be provided in a range of modern techniques including electrophysiology, neuroanatomy, fMRI, psychophysics, molecular genetics, and theory/computational modeling. In view of the high quality of postdoctoral applicants to our program, the consistent successes of current and past trainees, and diminishing private funds for training in visual neuroscience, we are requesting support for four postdoctoral trainees, which will ensure the maintenance of this training and leverage the productivity of our fifteen NEI-supported research programs.