Presidential Faculty Fellows/Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PFF/PECASE)

该奖项根据美国国家科学基金会的科学家和工程师总统早期职业奖计划（PECASE）为马克·格鲁克博士提供支持，该计划以前称为总统教员研究员（PFF）计划。这些项目是应美国总统的要求设立的，旨在表彰和支持美国一些最杰出的科学和工程教师在其职业生涯早期的学术活动。奖励的目的是让科学家承担自己设计的，创新的研究和教学项目，建立研究和教育计划，并从事其他学术相关活动。该奖项将允许研究者在人类学习的认知神经科学领域继续他的研究兴趣，使用神经网络的计算模型将大脑机制与突发行为联系起来。他研究的统一主题是从行为、生物学和计算的角度更好地理解学习和记忆的基本机制和原理。在五年的资助期间，他将(1)研究学习心理生物学的计算模型，通过研究在功能机制被破坏后行为如何改变，模拟特定类型的脑损伤，将假设的大脑机制与突发行为联系起来；(2)研究认知神经科学，通过研究海马受损健忘症患者的学习能力来验证计算模型的预测，并将其行为与海马受损动物的类似缺陷联系起来；(3)研究这些记忆过程如何导致工程问题的新解决方案和人工智能学习机的设计。在教学和教育领域，格拉克博士正在(1)创建新的跨学科本科和研究生课程；(2)为本科生特别是少数民族学生创造研究性实习机会；(3)开发一个多校区的神经计算项目，为心理学、神经科学、生物学、生物医学工程和认知科学的学生提供计算方法的研究训练和课程。格拉克博士对学习和记忆的基本过程的理解做出了重大贡献，对这些过程进行了可测试的定量和计算描述。他的贡献已经在包括他所选择的研究领域的每个领域（心理学、认知神经科学、心理生物学、系统神经科学和计算机科学）得到了认可，他的贡献将在这个奖项的持续时间内继续下去。此外，该奖项将为他继续为对行为和神经科学感兴趣的本科生和研究生提供创新项目的机会。

This award provides support to Dr. Mark Gluck under the National Science Foundation's Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers Program (PECASE) formerly called the Presidential Faculty Fellows (PFF) Program. These programs were established at the request of the President of the United States to recognize and support the scholarly activities of some of the Nation's most outstanding science and engineering faculty members early in their careers. Awards are intended to allow the scientists to undertake self-designed, innovative research and teaching projects, to establish research and education programs, and to pursue other academic related activities. This award will allow the investigator to pursue his research interests in the area of cognitive neuroscience of human learning, using computational models of neural networks to relate brain mechanisms to emergent behaviors. The unifying theme of his research is to better understand the fundamental mechanisms and principles of learning and memory from behavioral, biological and computational points of view. During the five year grant, he will (1) study computational models of the psychobiology of learning, relating postulated brain mechanisms to emergent behaviors by studying how behavior is altered after functional mechanisms are disrupted, simulating specific kinds of brain damage; (2) study cognitive neuroscience, testing the predictions of the computational models by studying the learning capabilities of hippocampal-damaged amnesic patients, and relating their behavior to similar deficits seen in hippocampal-lesioned animals; (3) study how these memorial processes can lead to novel solutions to engineering problems and the design of artificially-intelligent learning machines. In the area of teaching and education, Dr. Gluck is (1) creating new interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate courses; (2) creating research internships for undergraduates, especially minority students; and (3) developing a multi-campus program in Neural Computation which will provide research training and courses in computational methods for students in Psychology, Neuroscience, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Cognitive Science. Dr. Gluck is making major contributions to the understanding of fundamental processes of learning and memory, deriving testable quantitative and computational descriptions of these processes. His contributions, which have already been recognized in each of the fields (psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychobiology, systems neuroscience, and computer science) which encompass his chosen field of research, will continue over the duration of this award. Also, the award will provide an opportunity for him to continue his innovative programs for undergraduate and graduate students interested in the behavioral and neural sciences.