Mechanisms of learning across development and species

跨发展和跨物种的学习机制

• 批准号: 10180991
• 负责人: PATRICIA J. BAUER
• 金额: $ 24.49万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-01 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10180991
• 关键词: Development; Learning

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.

该提案是更新 6 至 10 年级的培训计划，培训博士前学生 跨发展和物种的学习机制。学习是适应性行为的基础。 它涉及获取和修改信息、行为和技能。学习也是富有成效的：它 通过归纳、演绎和整合来扩展自身。学习机制是一个关键领域 博士前研究培训，因为学习对适应性和适应不良都有普遍影响 行为，并且必须成为任何成功的心理健康或教育干预的组成部分。这 培训师资来自耶基斯国家灵长类研究中心心理学系 中心（YNPRC），以及埃默里大学的跨学科神经科学研究生项目。这 主要培训地点是心理学系和YNPRC。 19人培训 教师对学习机制进行研究，因为它们在整个发展过程中表现出来 使用遗传、比较、计算、发育、 神经生物学和神经心理学技术。他们研究加法和减法如何变化 大脑中的变化与学习的发展变化以及不同物种如何获得和修改有关 知识范围从简单的联想到以文化为媒介的仪式和传统。多样性 埃默里大学研究学习机制的年龄、物种和环境提供了丰富的信息 积累有关这些机制的汇聚证据的机会，从而装备 下一代科学家具有理解基本机制所需的技能 学习。此外，该培训地点非常适合解决 NIH 的优先事项，以改善 通过基础研究的整合来转化基础行为和社会科学研究 一系列生物学、行为学和社会学科有助于塑造 跨个体发育和系统发育的行为。我们每年要求三名博士前培训生，每名 他们将接受为期3年的培训。学员均来自埃默里大学经过严格挑选的莱尼 研究所。学员完成博士学位的所有部门/项目要求。培训 计划通过几个具体的增强功能提供附加值，包括（a）明确的合作 跨物种、年龄或方法的指导和合作研究经验； (b) 强化 赠款和其他专业写作培训； (c) 道德和责任方面的高级培训 进行研究； (d) 参加专门针对以下问题的研究的课程、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 研究生培养包括纵向（师生）和横向（同伴学习）教育模式。