Training in Hearing & Communication Neuroscience

听力训练

• 批准号: 8073421
• 负责人: Sarah W Bottjer
• 金额: $ 27.63万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8073421
• 关键词: Communication; Hearing; Neurosciences; Training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Southern California Neuroscience Graduate Program (DSC NGP) and the House Ear Institute (HEI) together propose to establish a unique research training program for predoctoral, postdoctoral, and postgraduate physician-scientist scholars: the USC/HEI Hearing and Communication Neuroscience Training Program. The program brings together a broad spectrum of scientists to enhance inter-disciplinary communication, and offers the unique advantage of providing research training opportunities that bridge basic science with clinical hearing and communications applications. The program will further solidify the research and training interactions between scientists in the College of Letters Arts & Sciences, the Keck School of Medicine, the Viterbi School of Engineering at USC, and HEI. The program will combine the strengths of an outstanding group of researchers focused on basic aspects of hearing and communication, the resources of the USC Graduate Program in Neuroscience and the HEI, and the expertise in clinical otologic excellence of the HEI. The rationale of this proposal is to engage predoctoral, postdoctoral, and physician-scientist trainees in a highly interactive and multidisciplinary training experience ranging from cell biology to cognitive neuroscience and linguistics that is unfettered by conventional departmental barriers, and actively facilitates their development as independent scientists. We propose four predoctoral and two postdoctoral scholars per year for a maximum of two years support for any one scholar. One of the postdoctoral scholars can be a physician-scientist recruited from the HEI Clinical Research Fellowship or the USC Otolaryngology Residency Program. Pre-doctoral trainees will typically join the program during the second year of their graduate training, whereas the level of seniority of post-doctoral trainees participating in the program will vary. All trainees will receive training in all aspects of hearing- and communication-related research and practical skills that will prepare them for careers in independently-funded research, education, and industry. The ability to expose trainees directly to both cutting-edge research in basic science as well as ongoing clinical research and applications is a major and unique strength of the program. RELEVANCE: This proposal focuses on research and training that are directly relevant to speech and language disorders and communication disabilities in humans. This training program will help prepare a cadre of scientists to address fundamental questions pertaining to hearing and vocal communication. These individuals will not only advance our understanding of biologic and behavioral bases of a broad spectrum of auditory-vocal communication disorders, but will also generate innovative diagnostic and therapeutic applications.

描述（由申请人提供）：南加州大学神经科学研究生课程（DSC NGP）和House Ear Institute（HEI）共同提议为前专业，博士后医生和科医师学者建立独特的研究培训计划：USC/HEI HEI听力和交流神经科学培训计划。该计划汇集了广泛的科学家，以增强跨学科的沟通，并提供了提供研究培训机会的独特优势，可以将基础科学与临床听力和通讯应用相连。该计划将进一步巩固文学学院艺术与科学学院，凯克医学院，USC的Viterbi工程学院和HEI的研究和培训互动。该计划将结合一群杰出的研究人员的优势，重点是听力和交流的基本方面，USC神经科学研究生和HEI的资源以及HEI临床动态学方面的专业知识。该提案的理由是参与高度互动和多学科的培训经验，从细胞生物学到认知神经科学和语言学，并在常规部门障碍中未受关注，并积极促进他们作为独立科学家的发展。我们每年提出四个专业和两名博士后学者，并为任何一个学者提供最多两年的支持。博士后学者之一可以是从HEI临床研究奖学金或USC耳鼻喉科住院医师计划中招募的医师科学家。博士前学员通常会在研究生培训的第二年加入该计划，而参加该计划的博士后学员资历水平将有所不同。所有学员将接受与听力和沟通有关的研究以及实践技能的各个方面的培训，这将为他们的职业做好准备，从而为独立资助的研究，教育和行业做好准备。直接将受训者暴露于基础科学以及正在进行的临床研究和应用的尖端研究的能力是该计划的主要且独特的优势。 相关性：该提案的重点是与人类言语和语言障碍和沟通障碍直接相关的研究和培训。该培训计划将有助于准备一群科学家，以解决与听力和声音交流有关的基本问题。这些人不仅会提高我们对各种听觉 - 声音沟通障碍的生物学和行为基础的理解，而且还将产生创新的诊断和治疗应用。