Promoting Science Literacy Through Neuroscience Laboratory Exercises

跨学科(99)该项目支持并扩展了一门面向非理科学生的神经科学基础课程，同时将以前成功的外展扩大到服务不足的大学预科学生。此外，该项目帮助教师将神经科学作为一种促进科学素养的手段纳入他们的课程。该项目开发了一系列多样化的实验室体验，涵盖了越来越复杂的程度，从对绵羊大脑的解剖，到脑电，再到语言理解的实时评估。实验练习引导学生阅读和理解初级文献、设计实验、反思实验结果和展示研究结果。

INTERDISCIPLINARY (99)The project sustains and expands a fundamentals of neuroscience course for non-science students while simultaneously growing the previously successful outreach to underserved pre-college students. In addition, the project aids faculty to incorporate neuroscience as a means of promoting science literacy into their course offerings. The project develops a series of diverse laboratory experiences spanning increasing degrees of complexity, from dissection of sheep brain, to electroencephalograms, to real-time assessment of language comprehension. The laboratory exercises guide students toward reading and understanding primary literature, devising experiments, reflecting upon experimental results and presenting findings.