Training in Cognitive Psychophysiology

描述(由申请者提供)：要求支持认知心理生理学研究培训计划的继续。该培训计划(可以追溯到“认知神经科学”作为“认知心理生理学”的同义词出现之前很久)是为了应对心理生理学技术日益渗透到行为科学的许多领域。心理生理学技术包括电生理、血流动力学和光学神经成像方法，以及更多外周身体功能的测量(特别是眼球运动和心率、呼吸、皮肤电活动、肌电图，所有这些我们都有相当的经验)。在心理学、神经科学和其他领域的许多分支学科接受培训的科学家正在采用这些测量方法。迫切需要为希望利用心理生理学方法的生物和行为科学家提供心理生理学方面的培训。该计划的教员是杰出的、活跃的科学家，具有不同的背景和兴趣，总部设在心理学、电气和计算机工程系、神经科学计划和贝克曼研究所，强调功能磁共振成像、事件相关电位和近红外方法及其相互之间和与其他方法的集成。该培训计划将这些教职员工及其研究生和博士后聚集在一起，通过课程作业和心理学系研究生计划以及校园神经科学和医学学者计划的延长学徒期，提供认知心理生理学的全面培训。该培训计划的使命也是通过吸引博士后实习生来实现的，该计划为他们提供了一个在仔细监督下过渡到研究的机会，将非侵入性人类神经科学的工具与心理学的工具结合起来，研究大脑对大脑的执行。该计划强调在明确的理论模型中嵌入经验工作的重要性，以及在广泛的数据分析方法中发展复杂性，为培训在不同应用中工作的独立认知心理生理学家提供服务。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Support is requested for the continuation of a research training program in cognitive psychophysiology. The training program (dating from well before "cognitive neuroscience" emerged as a term largely synonymous with "cognitive psychophysiology") responds to the increasing penetration of psychophysiological techniques into many domains of the behavioral sciences. Psychophysiological techniques include both electrophysiological, hemodynamic, and optical neuroimaging methods, as well as measures of more peripheral bodily functions (especially eye movements and also heart rate, respiration, electrodermal activity, electromyography, all of which we have considerable experience in). Scientists trained in many subdisciplines of psychology, neuroscience, and other fields are adopting these measurement approaches. There is a pressing need to provide training in psychophysiology for biological and behavioral scientists who wish to utilize psychophysiological methods. The program faculty are prominent, active scientists of diverse backgrounds and interests, based in the Departments of Psychology and Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Neuroscience Program, and the Beckman Institute, emphasizing fMRI, ERP, and near-infrared methods and their integration with each other and with other methods. The training program brings these faculty members and their graduate students and postdocs together in an environment that provides thorough training in cognitive psychophysiology through coursework and an extended apprenticeship within the graduate program of the Department of Psychology and the campus Neuroscience and Medical Scholars Programs. The training program's mission is also addressed by attracting postdoctoral trainees for whom the program provides an opportunity for carefully supervised transition into research combining the tools of noninvasive human neuroscience with those of psychology in studying the implementation of the mind by the brain. The program emphasizes the importance of embedding empirical work in explicit theoretical models as well as developing sophistication in a wide range of data analysis methods, in the service of training independent cognitive psychophysiologists working in diverse applications.