Biological Bases of Alphanumeric Learning Interventions

该提案描述了一个跨学科的研究项目，将调查符号处理的学习。该研究团队将认知神经科学家与教育心理学家和教育技术研究人员一起研究大脑机制和基本符号处理活动发展背后的行为，他们擅长设计和研究学校环境中交互式软件的影响。该项目的重点是与学习视觉符号及其相关的基于感知的参考之间的联系相关的技能和大脑活动的变化。研究人员将比较不同教学技术（通过基于网络的软件）预测的神经和行为变化，然后看看这些差异在多大程度上与不同的教学理论和符号处理的发展雅阁。

The proposal describes a cross-disciplinary research project that will investigate the learning of symbol processing. The research team brings cognitive neuroscientists with strengths in studying brain mechanisms and the behaviors underlying the development of fundamental symbol processing activities together with educational psychologists and educational technology researchers who are skilled in designing and studying the impact of interactive software within school settings. The project focuses on changes in skill and brain activity associated with learning the linkage between visual symbols and their associated perceptually-based referents. The researchers will compare the neurological and behavioral changes that are predicted to result from different instructional techniques (by means of web-based software) and then see to what extent those differences are in accord with different theories of instruction and the development of symbol processing.