CAREER: NEURAL-COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF READING (AND READING IMPAIRMENT) IN INDIVIDUALS

阅读能力具有重要的经济和社会影响。 不能阅读的成年人在工作中处于不利地位，因此有时会患上抑郁症等心理健康问题。与正常学习阅读的儿童相比，学习阅读有困难的儿童除了有患抑郁症的风险外，还遭受欺凌的比例增加，并且与父母和老师的关系可能更差。心理学和教育科学的一项关键任务是确保提供最好的工具，以确保每个小学生都有最大可能的阅读成功的机会。该项目将通过以比以往任何时候都更深入的方式描述儿童学习如何阅读的大脑状态来促进这一目标。该团队将创建一个新的，详细的图片的不同策略的个人使用成为成功的读者，以及在这些策略的个人与阅读的斗争出了什么问题。这张图片将基于一系列的测量，从成绩单上的分数到成功识别一个单词时大脑中发生的签名活动。主要研究人员承诺将与她所在地区领先的发展科学中心的医生密切合作宾厄姆顿大学儿童发展研究所（Binghamton University Institute for Child Development）以负责任的态度，确保研究的结果立即付诸实践，让社区的儿童尽快开始享受这项工作的好处。研究小组进一步承诺将在互联网上公开（匿名）研究结果，以便各地的教育工作者和研究人员可以使用通过该项目收集的新信息来帮助自己社区的学生。由于研究结果将被广泛使用，因此，如果研究结果没有被广泛分享，那么更多的研究小组将能够解释和扩展所发现的内容。这意味着，在这里开始的工作有可能点燃一个新的调查时代，国家和世界范围内，试图利用人类的大脑，以告知扫盲教育，因为它从来没有。

The ability to read has important economic and social consequences. Adults that cannot read face disadvantages in the work force and as a result sometimes suffer from mental health problems like depression. Children that have difficulty learning to read, in addition to being at risk for depression, also suffer from increased rates of bullying and can experience poorer relationships with their parents and teachers, when compared with children that learn to read normally. A crucial task for the psychological and educational sciences is to ensure that the best possible tools are available for making sure that every elementary school student has the maximum possible chance for reading success. This project will contribute to that goal by characterizing the brain states of children learning how to read in a more in-depth manner than has ever been done before. The team will create a new, detailed picture of the different strategies individuals use to become successful readers, and what goes wrong in those strategies in individuals that struggle with reading. This picture will be based on a combination of measures ranging from report card scores to the signature activity that occurs in the brain when a word is successfully identified.The principle investigator has pledged to work closely with doctors at her area's leading center for developmental science (the Binghamton University Institute for Child Development) to make sure that the results of the tudy are immediately put in to practice in a responsible manner, so that children in the community can start enjoying the benefits of the work as soon as possible. The research team further pledges to make the (anonymous) results of the study available publicly, on the internet, so that educators and researchers everywhere can use the new information collected through this project to aid students in their own communities. Because the results will be available so widely, many more research groups will be able to interpret and extend what is found than would be the case if the results were not so extensively shared. This means that the work started here has the potential to ignite a new era of investigation, nation and world-wide, that seeks to use the human brain to inform literacy education as it never has before.