Board on Behavioral, Cognitive and Sensory Sciences

为了响应与这些领域的科学发展相一致的公共政策需求，美国国家科学院（National Academy of Sciences）成立了一个行为、认知和感官科学委员会。该委员会将集中注意通过汇集发展心理学、社会过程、知觉和感觉科学、生物心理学和生物技术、神经科学和计算科学等不同领域的集体专门知识来改进政策决定。委员会加强沟通，扩大数据库，使更广泛的受众更容易获得科学信息。董事会活动同时通过从不同角度探讨问题来提高研究水平。由于杰出的科学家自愿成为NAS-NRC委员会的成员，这些委员会成为一种机制，使不同的研究领域相互促进，为公共政策提供信息。董事会在许多方面直接有利于科学。科学学科，通常是由各自领域的问题和方法驱动的，当从跨学科的方法共同考虑问题时，产生了越来越高的生产力。然而，大多数政府机构的任务导向削弱了相互共享的科学规划。因此，这样一个委员会的好处包括：(1)在联邦机构和独立的行为、社会、认知、感官和技术研究社区之间提供联系；(2)在行为科学、认知科学和感觉科学的改进和发展方面，让全国知名的学术科学家参与进来；(3)为科学和公共政策方面的信息交流提供论坛；(4)在NAS-NRC内部推进行为、认知和感官科学，并通过委员会与国会、联邦政府各项目办公室和研究项目的活动。委员会向国家科学基金会寻求其核心活动的经费。

A Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences has been established at the National Academy of Sciences in response to public policy needs that coincide with scientific developments in these fields. This Board will focus on improving policy decisions by drawing together the collective expertise of diverse fields of developmental psychology, social processes, perceptual and sensory sciences, biopsychology and biotechnology, neuroscience and computational sciences. A Board strengthens communications, broadens the databases, and makes scientific information more accessible to wider audiences. Board activities simultaneously improve research by probing issues from diverse perspectives. Because distinguished scientists volunteer their services as members of NAS-NRC Boards, such Boards become a mechanism for cross-fertilizing disparate research domains to inform public policy. A Board directly benefits science in a number of ways. Scientific disciplines, typically driven by the issues and methods of their respective fields, have yielded increasing productivity when jointly considering problems from an interdisciplinary approach. However, the mission-orientation of most government agencies has mitigated against mutually shared scientific planning. Thus, the benefits of such a Board include: (1) providing linkages across federal agencies and the separate behavioral, social, cognitive, sensory, and technology research communities; (2) involving nationally-prominent academic scientists in improvements and developments in the behavioral, cognitive, and sensory sciences; (3) providing a forum for information exchange relating to science and public policy; and (4) advancing behavioral, cognitive, and sensory sciences within the NAS-NRC and through the Board's activities with Congress and the diverse program offices and research programs across the federal complex. The Board seeks funding for its core activities from NSF.