Mechanisms of learning across development and species

该提案是为了更新6-10年的培训计划，该计划培养博士前学生， 跨发育和物种的学习机制。学习是适应行为的基础。 它涉及获取和修改信息，行为和技能。学习也是生产性的：它 通过归纳、演绎和整合来扩展自己。学习机制是一个关键领域， 博士前研究培训，因为学习对适应和适应不良都有广泛的影响， 行为，必须是任何成功的心理健康或教育干预的一个组成部分。的 培训教师来自Yerkes国家灵长类动物研究所心理学系 中心（YNPRC），和跨学科的神经科学研究生课程，所有的埃默里大学。的 主要的培训地点是心理学系和YNPRC。19人培训 教师接近学习的机制，因为他们在整个发展过程中表现的研究， 健康和临床人群使用遗传，比较，计算，发展， 神经生物学和神经心理学技术。他们研究加法和减法如何改变 与学习的发展变化有关，以及不同物种如何获得和修改 知识范围从简单的协会，以文化为媒介的仪式和传统。之多样 年龄，物种和学习机制在埃默里大学研究的情况下提供了丰富的 积累关于这些机制的趋同证据的机会，从而为 下一代的科学家与必要的技能，了解基本的机制， 学习此外，培训网站非常适合解决NIH的优先事项，以改善 通过整合基础研究，翻译基础行为和社会科学研究 在一系列的生物，行为，和社会学科，有助于塑造 个体发育和生殖发育中的行为。我们每年要求三名博士前学员， 他们将接受为期三年的培训。学员是从埃默里大学精挑细选的兰尼 研究生院学员完成所有部门/计划要求的博士学位。培训 该计划通过几个具体的增强功能提供附加值，包括（a）明确的共同 跨物种、年龄或方法的指导和合作研究经验;（B）密集 赠款和其他专业写作方面的培训;（c）道德操守和责任方面的高级培训 开展研究;（d）参加专门研究下列问题的课程、讲习班和研究论坛： 跨发展和跨物种的学习;（e）应用经验支持的最佳做法， 研究生培训，包括纵向（教师-学生）和横向（同行学习）教育模式。

The proposal is to renew a Training Program for Years 6-10, that trains predoctoral students in the mechanisms of learning across development and species. Learning is fundamental to adaptive behavior. It involves acquiring and modifying information, behaviors, and skills. Learning also is productive: it extends itself through induction, deduction, and integration. Mechanisms of learning is a critical area for predoctoral research training because learning has pervasive impacts in both adaptive and maladaptive behavior, and must be an integral part of any successful mental health or educational intervention. The Training Faculty are drawn from the Department of Psychology, the Yerkes National Primate Research Center (YNPRC), and the interdisciplinary Neuroscience Graduate Program, all of Emory University. The primary training sites are the Department of Psychology and the YNPRC. The 19-member Training Faculty approach the study of the mechanisms of learning as they manifest throughout development in healthy and clinical populations using genetic, comparative, computational, developmental, neurobiological, and neuropsychological techniques. They examine how additive and subtractive changes in the brain relate to developmental changes in learning, and how diverse species acquire and modify knowledge ranging from simple associations to culturally-mediated rituals and traditions. The diversity of ages, species, and circumstances in which learning mechanisms are studied at Emory provides rich opportunities for accumulation of converging evidence about these mechanisms, and thus for equipping the next generation of scientists with the skills necessary for understanding basic mechanisms of learning. Moreover, the training site is ideally suited to address the priority of the NIH to improve the translation of basic behavioral and social sciences research through our integration of basic research among the range of biological, behavioral, and social disciplines that contribute to the shaping of behavior across both ontogeny and phylogeny. We request three predoctoral trainees per year, each of whom will be trained for 3 years. Trainees are drawn from among Emory's highly-selective Laney Graduate School. Trainees complete all departmental/program requirements for the Ph.D. The Training Program provides added value through several specific enhancements, including (a) explicit co- mentoring and collaborative research experiences across species, ages or methodologies; (b) intensive training in grant and other professional writing; (c) advanced training in ethics and the responsible conduct of research; (d) participation in courses, workshops and research forums specific to research on learning across development and species; and (e) application of empirically supported best practices in graduate training, including vertical (faculty-student) and horizontal (peer learning) education models.