PIRE: International Research Program in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience

Rauschecker 0730255 PIRE：认知和计算神经科学国际研究计划在这个国际研究和教育合作奖中，乔治敦大学和霍华德大学将发展一个涉及德国和法国几个机构的多边国际神经科学合作。 参与的美国研究人员和学生将与以下团队合作：由亚瑟Konnerth领导的慕尼黑工业大学，由贝内迪克特格罗特领导的慕尼黑路德维希-马克西米利安大学，由Nikos Logothetis领导的蒂宾根马克斯普朗克生物控制论研究所，由Peter Thier领导的蒂宾根埃伯哈德-卡尔斯大学，他们分别在伊夫河畔吉夫的分子和细胞神经生物学实验室和图卢兹的大脑和认知研究中心工作。 他们将形成一个集中的，综合的和互补的合作，在国际舞台上领导神经科学研究和教育。 研究课题包括与听觉物体处理、运动处理和情境运动行为相关的大脑皮层神经元功能，以及刺激处理和类别处理的相互作用产生物体识别。该奖项将有助于培养下一代全球参与的科学家和工程师，大约有20名本科生，14名研究生，五名博士后研究人员将在该奖项的五年课程中与德国和法国合作伙伴一起在国外进行研究。 此外，该奖项将允许乔治敦大学和霍华德大学继续与慕尼黑工业大学开发联合博士课程的计划，并将利用慕尼黑工业大学已经从德国研究基金会获得的资金，该基金会鼓励美国/德国合作，允许德国博士生通过国际研究培训小组计划在乔治敦进行研究。 该奖项将加强霍华德大学和乔治敦大学之间现有的神经科学合作，并将利用霍华德大学招收少数民族学生的能力来扩大参与。 整个项目旨在通过积极的国际合作和参与联合组织的国际暑期学校来拓宽学生的视野。该奖项包括资助一名外部评估人员，以确定该项目达到目标的程度。该奖项得到了NSF国际科学与工程办公室和行为与认知科学部的支持。

Rauschecker 0730255PIRE: International Research Program in Cognitive and Computational NeuroscienceIn this Partnership for International Research and Education award, Georgetown University and Howard University will develop a multi-lateral international neuroscience collaboration involving several German and French institutions. The U.S. researchers and students involved will work with teams at the Technical University of Munich led by Arthur Konnerth, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich led by Benedikt Grothe, at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen led by Nikos Logothetis, at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tubingen led by Peter Thier, at the Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology in Gif-sur-Yvette led by Gabriella Ugolini, and at the Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse led by Simon Thorpe. They will form a focused, integrated, and complementary collaboration to lead neuroscience research and education on the international stage. Research topics include the neuronal functions of the cerebral cortex associated with auditory object processing, motion processing and contextual motor behavior, and the interaction of stimulus processing and category processing to produce object recognition.This award will help to train the next generation of globally engaged scientists and engineers, as approximately twenty undergraduate students, fourteen graduate students, and five postdoctoral researchers will be funded to conduct research abroad with the German and French partners over the five-year course of the award. In addition, this award will allow Georgetown and Howard Universities to pursue their plans of developing a joint doctoral program with the Technical University of Munich and will leverage funds already received by the Technical University of Munich from the German Research Foundation, which encourage U.S. / German collaboration by allowing German doctoral students to conduct research at Georgetown via the International Research Training Group program. This award will enhance an already-existing neuroscience collaboration between Howard University and Georgetown University and will broaden participation by taking advantage of Howard University's ability to recruit under-represented minority students. The project overall is designed to broaden students' perspectives through an active international collaboration and participation in jointly organized international summer academies. The award includes funding for an outside evaluator to determine how well the project reaches its goals.This award receives support from NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering and Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.