REU Site in the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences

这个REU网站是行为与认知科学夏季本科生研究项目在短暂休息后的重新开始，最初建立于1987年。总的来说，该计划的目标是为参与者提供密集的研究经验，扩大他们对研究领域的接触，并增加他们的研究技能、知识和对可能的研究职业的兴趣。为了实现这些目标，学生作为教师导师研究团队的正式成员参与，接触到研究工作的各个方面，每个人都对一个特定的研究项目承担主要责任。学生们所在的实验室的研究都符合以下三个主题之一：感知和知觉-运动协调、学习和记忆，以及行为的情感和社交方面。学生们准备关于他们的项目的书面和口头报告以及海报演示。他们参加由相关领域的项目导师和研究人员主持的研讨会。他们参加实验室参观和实地考察，如明尼阿波利斯退伍军人医学中心的脑科学中心、功能磁共振成像中心、人类因素实验室等。参与者参加致力于研究伦理、技术写作、口头和书面报告准备以及申请研究生项目过程的研讨会。智力优势：教师导师是各自领域的知名和多产的研究人员，致力于培养本科生研究。学生接触并探索实验室研究项目的所有阶段，包括研究的设计、实施、分析和撰写。在与他们的导师协商后，他们选择自己负责的研究的某些方面。这成了他们的项目。由活跃而富有成效的研究人员进行的研讨会演讲确保了学生接触到认知科学和行为科学中的广泛主题。将参观的中心和专门实验室提供接触尖端技术和综合科学计划的机会。这样的访问传达了这样一种感觉，即当前的研究往往是跨学科的。更广泛的影响：参与者在项目完成后返回他们的家乡学校，交流他们的经验和项目结果的性质。这有时是通过在母校的正式演讲以及与教职员工和同学的非正式讨论来实现的。他们的研究海报经常出现在本科生研究会议上，有时还会出现在定期的专业会议上。在许多情况下，他们继续进行这项研究。他们还表达了他们对科学事业的兴奋之情。因此，校友申请参加REU项目的人数有所增加。其长期影响也明显体现在大量继续攻读研究生的校友身上。许多人作为研究人员和院士继续成功的职业生涯。

Project SummaryThis REU site is a re-start, after a short break, of the Summer Undergraduate Research Program in the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences originally established in 1987. The objectives of the Program, broadly speaking, are to provide participants with an intensive research experience, to broaden their exposure to research domains, and to increase their research skills, knowledge, and interest toward a possible research career. To accomplish these objectives students participate as full members of a faculty mentor's research team with exposure to all aspects of the research endeavor, each taking primary responsibility for a specific research project. The research of the laboratories, in which the students are working, all fits into one of three themes: perception and perceptual-motor coordination, learning and memory, and affective and social aspects of behavior. The students prepare written and oral reports and poster presentations about their project. They attend a seminars led by program mentors and researchers in related areas. They participate in laboratory tours and field trips such as to the Brain Sciences Center at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, the fMRI Center, the Human Factors Laboratory, etc. Participants take part in workshops devoted to research ethics, technical writing, preparation of oral and written reports, and the process of applying to graduate programs.Intellectual merit: Faculty mentors are well-known and productive researchers in their fields with a commitment to fostering undergraduate research. The students are exposed to and explore all phases of laboratory research projects, including the design, conduct, analysis, and write-up of the research. In consultation with their mentor, they select some aspect of the research for which they take responsibility. This becomes their project. The seminar presentations given by active and productive researchers ensures student exposure to a broad range of topics in the cognitive and behavioral sciences. The Centers and specialized laboratories to be visited provide contact with cutting-edge technology and integrated scientific programs. Such visits convey the sense of how current research is often interdisciplinary in nature.Broader impact: Participants returning to their home schools after completion of the program communicate the nature of their experience and the results of their projects. This is done sometimes through formal presentations at their home schools as well as informal discussions with faculty and fellow students. Their research posters are often presented at undergraduate research conferences and sometimes at regular professional conferences. In many cases they continue working on that research. They also convey the excitement they feel for the scientific enterprise. As a result, there is an increase in applications to the REU program from schools of alumni. The long-term impact is also evident in the large number of alumni who go on to graduate study. Many have gone on to successful careers as researchers and academicians.